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A possible project would be to compare the RTTs from ping/ICMP with those from TCP SYN ACK delays as seen from Thailand for both ipv4 and ipv6. See Validating ICMP ping measurements against TCP nping measurements. Les sent to Johari and Charnsak, the perl script (ping-vs-tcp.pl) he has written to make the measurements. No update 3/8/2018. Hopes to install new MA.
UUM (No input from Adib 12/7/2017, 3/8/2018)
Adib has updated the paper on Internet Performance and its Reflection on Socioeconomic Development in the ASEAN Countries to IEEE Access and sent to Les and Bebo for review. Then we will need to find a suitable place to publish.
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One student is working on: Data Mining doing research on PingER data. He will be using Hadoop on a supercomputer at NUST.
The student is getting to know Hadoop. Once the student is comfortable with the tools we can start applying the tools to pinger data. he is working on Hadoop. Student is working on exams at the moment, Wajahat will contact studentCompleted intership and left at end Feb. Looking for new students, will take 3 weeks find and train so no progress in setting up new MA
Wajahat is trying to contact the sick Pakistani MA nodes but the current week is exam week. He will give detailed response next week. So Les has paused Disabling (see below). We can always restore an MA for testing or when it is once again reliable. Wajahat proposes to get a list of the new Universities in Pakistan and contact them encouraging them to joining participate in PingER and set up MA. He will start next week when the students are available.
There is an upcoming grant call for projects between Pakistan and the US. Topics may be focused on cybersecurity, health and education. It has not been announced yet. Wajahat will get the details and share them with the team as soon as they are available. It is interesting since getting a US partner appears to be a roadblock for many potential Pakistani responders. However, the topics may not be very related to PingER. For cyber the main things we could think of were: punching holes in firewalls to allow pings, how to misuse ping (e.g. ping-of-death, or using anomalous ping packets to deduce the OS etc. flood pings for DOS), host can respond to ping but applications do not work. Fear of misuse of pings can result in the system administrator, network administrator or cyber security blocking pings. Possibility might be a study of what fraction of say working www/dns etc. apps (i.e. checking if a host responds to the relevant port) do not respond to pings. This could be by application, by country or by region etc. Also how to protect a remote pinger traceroute or server from being used in DOS attacks.
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- 121.52.146.180 (kohat.edu.pk) down since Nov 22,2018/2017. Wajahat recommends conitnuin
aup.seecs.edu.pk host is pingable, Wajahat still trying, not given up. Still down 4/15/2017, 7/3/2017, 8/11/2017, 9/16/2017 (does not ping), 1/8/2018 (pings). Contacted and they will fix the problem soon.10/24/2017. They are non responsive as of Jan 19, 2018. Disabled- pinger-ncp.ncp.edu.pk pings but can't gather data 8/11/2017 and 9/16/2017. Contacted. Pings but can't gather data 10/24/2017. They are in the process of restoring 1/17/2018. Still down February 28, 2018, await new student.
They have made a list of new university sites, communications networks, Labs in different regions of Pakistan (especially the remote regions) and will make contact.
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Reviewing the blockchain feasibility for the PingER data storage..
Working on proposed framework for Blockchain, has a rough draft, will sahre with the group
Pinger.gzhu.edu.cn MA is down since November due to a possible security issue. Saqib recommends giving. Is there any progress, can we assist, do we disable?
IPv6 node is down they are upgrading the subnet cloud. Hope to be restored in 2 weeks.
Saqib submitted a project in CERNET to monitor the performance of IPv6 network using PingERv6. He received the news that the project is accepted with 100K RMB. Now he has 2 accepted projects regarding PingER and total amount he has is near about 40K USD. Further, in his lab, three U1 servers have already arrived through another grant for research purpose. We can also use them for our PingER project.
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Currently, no data is available on PingER on Android due to unavailability of the live IP address. No update 4/19/2017, 7/6/2017. Email sent to Sara Masood. No update 9/24/2017. Any update 10/24/2017. No progress 1/18/2018.
PingER at SLAC
Umar looking at extending the comparison IPv6 vs IPv4 ping RTTs and TCP vs ICMP/ping RTTs. See Towards Analysis of ICMP vs TCP Ping Latencies.
XSS vulnerability in traceroute.pl
Sent following email to Johari, Adib, Wajahat and Saqib:
There is a modified version of the PingER traceroute.pl CGI script. The new version sanitizes the QUERY_STRING variables to prevent some just exposed cross-site-scripting (XSS, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) vulnerabilities. It is recommended that you replace the existing traceroute.pl script at your site with the new version, i.e. get (e.g. using wget) traceroute.pl from http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/traceroute/traceroute.pl and install in your CGI directory (often /var/www/cgi-bin or /usr/local/cgi-bin or /usr/lib/cgi-bin or /var/www/cgi-bin). You may need to make it executable with the command chmod a+x traceroute.pl. You can test it by loading the URL http://yourwebserver/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl.
Please let Les know if this is clear and follow instructions. Then Les will send to all active MA contacts. Les has created a mailing group for them.
Saqib can't update since cloud is down
Working with Saqib to test pinger2.pl to make it work with IPv6 servers and targets.
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