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Installation is in progress for the Bahawalpur site. Install complete needs approval from head, hopefully up on Monday
The following are now up and running:
buitms.seecs.edu.pk (electrical problem appears solved).
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pinger.kohat.edu.pk, Still, trying to find motherboard of Dell Optiplex 760. System, is old, hard to find motherboard, hope to solve soon. Currently the name is not resolving
also host pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk name is not resolving
there is no data this month from pingerfsbd.pern.edu.pk and the host is unpingable from SLAC
sau.seecs.edu.pk has been ungatherable (and unpingable) since Aug 7th, prior to that it was unreliable
www.upesh.edu.pk is pingable from SLAC but can't gather data from SLAC.
Raja
Raja has added an optional feature to exclude water areas from the acceptable area. This reduces the error (proportional to area), but sometimes leads to a less accurate centroid (for the US sites, only 11 had water, the centroid of 5 showed improvement, 6 got worse). Currently it is only available for N. America. Here is a confluence page showing few examples: TULIP AIG with water exclusion
The number of working, usable landmarks is now up to 340.
Replaced non responding Beacon with working hosts. The table below shows the changes made:
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Jordon monitor was down since 12th June. Has been fixed after emailing the contact.
Raja leaves SLAC early August to return to is back in Pakistan.
PingER at SLAC
Les requested an update from Yahoo about TULIP's geolocation. They answered "We are very much interested in getting IP triangulation at internet scale, we will have internal sync-up on how we can leverage this initiative if there is rate limit and get back. Regarding opening up yahoo sites for deploying ping server requires some more time to discuss this with relevant stake holders with in yahoo." No word, sent a reminder 5/19/2014. No response 6/4/2014, 6/25/2014..
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