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On Monday 27th July, we heard from the Director of the Computer Centre at UNMA that the host had been set up and provided a globally visible IP address. It's name was not registered in the Domain Name Services (DNS). We validated that measurements were being made and recorded, that we could gather data, and that the traceroute/ping server was working. As a result we added an entry in the PinGER meta (NODEDETAILS) data base.
On August 2, 2009 since the host had not been entered into the DNS, we set up the host to not require a DNS entry. To make sure data was properly labelled we changed the container:
<SrcName>pinger.unza.zm</SrcName>
On August 22nd we added remote hosts for Zambia's neighboring countries to the <HostList></HostList> container.
On Sunday 23 August, we changed pinger.xml so it only sends 100Byte pings. This should reduce bandwidth utilization by a factor of 10. We also made mail..unza.zm into a Beacon node.