The strange behavior mentioned a long time ago is still occurring in the community network. During months connection time was 4s but for 2 days it has been 24s again.
Transition was exactly at 2019-07-18 18:55. Most nodes are managed by Hetzner but not all, and I canāt believe that a problem on Hetzner network would create a constant supplementary delay.
I think there is an issue in the code, maybe some unfortunate timers in crust or an external library like mio. 24s to connect is too long and constant connection times are not normal. Did @maidsafe observed similar figures in their tests?
Here is an excerpt of my check-contact container logs that shows the transition:
2019-07-18T18:48:20.613915530Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "4.625" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "4.452" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "4.659" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "4.459" }]
2019-07-18T18:49:28.872645072Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "4.626" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "4.454" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "4.621" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "4.458" }]
2019-07-18T18:50:37.121512814Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "4.651" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "4.455" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "4.628" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "4.421" }]
2019-07-18T18:51:45.351568838Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "4.636" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "4.420" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "4.632" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "4.461" }]
2019-07-18T18:52:53.670204775Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "4.660" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "4.480" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "4.630" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "4.456" }]
2019-07-18T18:55:21.284341444Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "24.444" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "24.322" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "24.434" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "24.326" }]
2019-07-18T18:57:48.937508400Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "24.447" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "24.345" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "24.437" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "24.325" }]
2019-07-18T19:00:16.609759521Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "24.465" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "24.325" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "24.436" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "24.347" }]
2019-07-18T19:02:44.232357225Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "24.446" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "24.328" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "24.430" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "24.325" }]
2019-07-18T19:05:11.976432805Z [{ "ip": "95.216.189.149:5483", "time": "24.490" }, { "ip": "116.203.25.212:5483", "time": "24.355" }, { "ip": "95.216.206.201:5483", "time": "24.460" }, { "ip": "116.203.56.138:5483", "time": "24.326" }]