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Saqib received feedback on the submitted FRGS 2014 proposal ("A Fundamental Active Internet Performance Monitoring Framework for Malaysian Research & Education Network") for 36 months. He will update it and re-submit. He proposes to submit another in ERGS or E-Science grants. He is in discussions with his PhD. superviser to get the requirements and has started on the proposal.
UUM
Regarding the monitoring host in UUM, Adib has assigned one student to prepare the configuration/installation plan including how to secure our host from attack. He has a public IP address. He needs to the DNS registration by Sunday or Monday. He is in the last stage of working with the Computer Center. Adib requested Johari to share the UNIMAS setting so it is easier for the student to follow.
NUST
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Kashif has copied new beacon list (modified pinger.xml for pakistani nodes) at the HEC-PoP node at Khi (pingerkhi.pern.edu.pk). By looking at the data it seems to be allowing pings outside Pakistan. This implies, its working fine and there is no blockage (May be for some outside Pakistan nodes but not for all). So the new synchronized beacon list has no problem so far.
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Kashif reports the installation of PingER at Sahiwal is complete. Raja will add to PingER and TULIP (site is not responding - might be a power outage 11:42AM 4/23/14 Pacific Time).We are unable to gather data from airuniversity, cae, duhs, kohat, lcwu, pinger.nca.edu.pk, pingernwfpuet.edu.pk, pinger.pern.edu.pk, pingerfsbd, pingerisl-fjwu.pern.edu.pk, pingerisl-qau, pingerkhi-uok.pern.edu.pk, pingermtn.pern.edu.pk, sau.seecs.edu.pk , uaf, www.upesh.edu.pk. Raja will add to PingER and TULIP (site is not responding - might be a power outage 11:42AM 4/23/14 Pacific Time).
The following nodes (were down for months) has been recovered by the efforts made in the last two weeks and they are working fine now. These all are also updated with the new beacon list by replacing pinger.xml file.
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pinger.uob.edu.pk is working but having multi-hour power outages each day. This usually means that when SLAC goes to gather the data in the early morning Pacific time the host does not respond so we are unable to gather the data. Analyzing the outages, it it appears that a good time gather the data is at ~11:00am Pacific time, since the host usually responds at that time.
To assist in SEECS gathering data getdata.cf is now available via http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools/nodes.cf
Raja
Raja, Umar and Les are working on a paper on TULIP and its application to Visual Tracerouting to be submitted at end of April.
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