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In cases where the removed remote host is important (e.g. is one of two hosts or is the only host representing an entire country) and needs replacing with another host, we have developed a HostSearcher tool. It first interrogates Google for up to 1000 unique hosts in a selected country (using the Top Level Domain (TLD) feature). The tool then pings each host 10 times (by default) to ensure it responds and saves the min-RTT. Finally, it checks the filtered hosts with Geo IP Tool to obtain the TLD, Latitide/Longitude, country, and city. The final list of hosts obtained can be further filtered by whether they are really in the country, their loss rate, their min-RTT, diverse location within the country etc. Though not always accurate this has been a great aid on numerous occasions. Unfortunately for a few developing countries (e.g. Chad, Libya) even this method fails to produce suitable monitorable hosts.
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