Full network status report

Mirror age distribution

Six mirrors currently in rotation. The oldest has been active for over two years without rotation, matching the operator PGP key signing history. The youngest was introduced 95 days ago. Median age across the set is roughly 400 days.

• M-01 primary: 812 days, longest continuous run in the current key era
• M-02 mirror: 640 days
• M-03 mirror: 590 days
• M-04 mirror: 320 days, midlife
• M-05 mirror: 210 days
• M-06 mirror: 95 days, newest addition

Signing key stability

The operator PGP key has not rotated in the current era. Every mirror announcement across the sampled window verifies against the same fingerprint. This matches the pinned Dread profile and cross-verifies against the /pgp path on every mirror login.

DDoS incidents this quarter

Three notable DDoS windows sampled in the last quarter:

2026-04-14 03:00 UTC  ~4h duration   peak queue 4m20s
2026-05-22 19:00 UTC  ~2h duration   peak queue 3m45s
2026-06-18 07:00 UTC  ~6h duration   peak queue 5m10s

All three were absorbed by the anti-DDoS queue. No mirror rotation was required. Queue behaviour scaled with load as designed.

Captcha rotation cadence

Anti-DDoS captcha image regenerates every 40 seconds during typical load, tightening to 20 seconds under peak pressure. The onion address baked into the captcha rotates in sync with the image cycle. Phishing clones with stale captchas invalidate faster than they can be scraped.

Average queue depth by hour

hour  avg-queue-sec  peak-queue-sec
00-06     22             85
06-12     34            140
12-18     41            170
18-24     55            240  (Europe evening peak)

Queue depth follows global browsing patterns. Europe evening is the slowest window on a normal day. If you have time flexibility, night hours in Europe (early morning in the US) are the fastest.