- Using http://www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pingtable.pl?format=tsv&file=average_rtt&by=by-node&size=100&tick=monthly&year=2010&month=10&from=EDU.SLAC.STANFORD.N3&to=WORLD&ex=none&only=all&dataset=hep&percentage=any find hosts that have had no data for the last n (say 3) months.
- From these identify countries with < 2 hosts that have been pingable in the last n (say 3) months.
- Use HostSearcher.pl (also see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/PingER+Host+Searcher) to search for www (-webonly) hosts with the appropriate TLD in the requested TLD (-tld)
- Looking at the HostSearcher.pl results find hosts in the right TLD (as identified by GeoIPTools in HostSearcher.pl) that are pingable
- Manually inspect such hosts to choose the 2 most appropriate to add, i.e.
- Does the minimum RTT look reasonable for the country
- Does the www site respond (use Chrome to translate the foreign languages)
- Where possible prefer Universities or sites of higher learning
- Use http://www.satsig.net/maps/lat-long-finder.htm to find the Lat/long of the site
- Choose sites in different cities if possible