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This directory contains a set of pages describing various problems, relevant information, how they were tackled and possibly resolved. The date is roughly when the page for this problem was created.

Date

Link

Summary

Status

December 30, 2011

Wget does not work in getdata.pl

wget in getdata.pl fails to pinger.pern.edu.pk with a URL that works if from a browser

 

December 29, 2011

Hosts pingable from some regions, but not others

Can't ping pingerisl-fjwu.pern.edu.pk or pinger.pern.edu.pk from anywhere but Pakistan and Jordan

Probably a remote host or remote network/firewall configuration

August 17, 2010

LCLS Data Transfers from SLAC to DESY performing poorly

 

Appears it is a host related problem at DESY - UNDERSTOOD

August 23, 2007

IEPM-BW host at NIIT not reachable

Getting two different IP addresses when trying to resolve host name.

NIIT DNS servers were out of sync and both were down - UNDERSTOOD

July 8, 2007

Reporting COMSATS Pakistan not reachable

Routing loop blocked access, unable to report problem.

Loss of power at COMSats - UNDERSTOOD

July 1, 2007

SLAC Internal Connection

Long delays loading SLAC home page on Visitor network using wireless

SKYPE (or other P2P application) was using the host as a supernode - UNDERSTOOD

June 26, 2007

SLAC External Connections

Offiste connections to some sites was very poor

STILL DIAGNOSING

December 1, 2006

Inadequate throughput between SLAC and U Victoria, Dec 2006

User wants to increase throughput between SLAC and UVic

Partially UNDERSTOOD

August 22, 2006:

Problems From BNL August '06'

BNL unreachable from some places -

INPROCESS.NOT RESOLVED

August 4, 2006

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Problems accessing S. African host 04 August '06'

Denial of Service attack, followed by loss of power

UNDERSTOOD.

July 25, 2006

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Problems with BINP-SLAC link July '06

Power problems in Akademogorock region causes many services to be unavailable from SLAC to BINP

-UNDERSTOOD.

May 18, 2006

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Poor throughput for GLAST data transfers between SLAC and NRL Washinton

Too small TCP windows set at default, firewall limiting throughput, application needs to apply ssh throughput patches, mandated application cannot use multiple streams or big windows, alternate path had port blocking.

-UNDERSTOOD.

May 14, 2006

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Throughput between SLAC and Taiwan

TCP windows and number of parallel styreams needed optimizing

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UNDERSTOOD.

May 9, 2006

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Large increase in RTT from South Africa to CERN April 2006

Change in routing traffic from S. Africa to CERN from using GEANT to going via Abilene and the U.S. after Abilene started exchanging traffic with S. African TENET

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UNDERSTOOD.

February 1, 2006

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Problems with Oracle between SLAC and ORNL, Jan 2006

Appears to be an application problem

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UNDERSTOOD.

January 22, 2006

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Effect of ESnet routing change between SLAC and SDSC

San Diego Sunnyvale connectivity was interrupted by Level(3) maintenance. An alternate path was used. This study looks at the impact on the various IEPM metrics of the route change

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UNDERSTOOD

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December 28, 2005

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Problems with link to and from BNL

Multiple paths seen from and to BNL showed step downs in pathchirp performanceBelieved to be related to the host at BNL

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NOT RESOLVED

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September 10, 2005

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Problems with Stanford's Connectivity

Fan failure in Cisco 15454 causes route to CENIC/Sunnyvale to fail, and switch over to using ESnet

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UNDERSTOOD

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August 16, 2005

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Problems with link to and from BNL

Fiber cut causes OC48 outage and fail over to a T3 link

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UNDERSTOOD

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July 1, 2004

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Fiber outage to Pakistan June 27th to July 8, 2005

Fiber cut off coast of Karachi causes 12 day outage to Pakistan

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UNDERSTOOD

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May 31, 2005

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New Route from SLAC to BINP Novosibirsk via GLORIAD

See the effect of the new route in improving RTT and throughput

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UNDERSTOOD

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April 18, 2005

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Loss of Connectivity between SLAC and BINP Novosibirsk

Some change caused the connectivity between SLAC and BINP to be blocked by firewalls in Novosibirsk.

September 2, 2004

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Loss of Connectivity from SLAC for about 10 hours

Due to CENIC maintenance SLAC lost conectivity to many sites from around midnight until 10:30am

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This is nicely illustrated in traceroutes taken each 10 minute interval to multiple sites from SLAC and in particular can be nicely visualized by means of a topology map.

-UNDERSTOOD

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February 25, 2004

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Network performance to Pakistan

Shows Internet performance from SLAC to a few Pakistani sites, including: differences in performance depending on providers; identifying bottlenecks; effects of upgrade for NIIT; routing between Pakistani sites going via London

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-UNDERSTOOD

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January 8, 2004

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Effect of routing on RTTs and losses to 2 sites in Hangzhou, China

Site with better Internet connectivity had much larger RTTs, but lower losses -

UNDERSTOOD

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October 3, 2003

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Throughput from SLAC to Caltech reduced by a factor of 5

CENIC's routing to Caltech was incorrect

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RESOLVED

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July 23, 2003

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RESOLVED

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June 12, 2003

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Effect of change from Internet2 to ESnet for the routes from SLAC to Europe

2 problems, routing for IN2P3, incorrect iperf configuration for CESnet

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RESOLVED.

June 10, 2003

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Daresbury lab (UK)

One of our important partner Daresbury lab (UK) upgraded line to Internet to 1GBitper second Routing

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RESOLVED.

June 6, 2003

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RESOLVED

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May 22, 2003

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RESOLVED

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May 20, 2003

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RESOLVED

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May 7, 2003

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May 1, 2003

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RESOLVED

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November 6, 2002

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RESOLVED

September 20, 2002

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reports from BWESLAC-UK, and SLAC-ANL

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RESOLVED

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July 26, 2002

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Network connectivity between SLAC and BINP, Novosibirsk

following upgradeResults of effectiveness of network upgrade

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RESOLVED

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May 30, 2002

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RESOLVED

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Mar 21, 2002

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RESOLVED

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Jan 4, 2002

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A sudden change in bandwidth utilization

Throughput from monitoring host suddenly dropped from several hundreds of Mbits

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per second to about 100Mbits

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per second due to turning on debugging flags

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RESOLVED

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Jan 8, 2002

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Problems with performance between SLAC and IN2P3, Jan '02

Only ~ 20Mbits/s throughput achievable on 30Mbps ATM VP bottleneck

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RESOLVED

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Dec 13, 2001

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Problems with performance between SLAC and CERN

Large router buffers adversely affect interactive use

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RESOLVED

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Sep 27, 2001

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Nework connectivity between SLAC and RL, UK

Poor performance from SLAC to Rutherford Lab, UK caused by firewall and small windows

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RESOLVED

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Sep 19, 2001

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Problems with links from SLAC to IHEP.SU

High packet loss prevents ssh access, due to host problems

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RESOLVED

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Sep 11, 2001

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Impact of World Trade Center & Pentagon attacks on Internet performance

How did the WTC collapse affect Internet connectivity for SLAC

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RESOLVED.

May 3, 2001

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Qbone Scavenger Service at SLAC

Need to find hosts/sites to try with QBone Scavenger services

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RESOLVED

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Mar 28, 2001

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International Internet connectivity from SLAC

Request for information on quality of International links

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RESOLVED

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Mar 19, 2001

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Comparing ihep.ac.cn with cas.ac.cn - March 2001

Request to understand the proposed effect of changing an ISP

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RESOLVED

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Mar 1, 2001

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Feb 01Problems with users DSL service due to bad pairs to home

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RESOLVED

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Jan 27, 2001

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Throughput between Tersk03 and Kangadata

Problems in host to host throughput on LAN due to windows being to small

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RESOLVED

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Jan 22, 2001

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Network connectivity between SLAC and IN2P3, Jan 2001

Problems with throughput between SLAc and IN2P3 due to misconfigured ATM/PVC

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RESOLVED

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Jan 12, 2001

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Network connectivity between SLAC and Platform Computing

Problems between SLAC and a commercial site due to poor routing

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RESOLVED

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Dec 18, 2000

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Network connectivity between SLAC and UT Dallas

Multiple probelms with throughput between SLAC and UTDallas due to small windows and packet loss

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RESOLVED WINDOW PROBLEM

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Dec 07, 2000

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Network connectivity between SLAC and IN2P3, Lyon, France

User question on suitability of network connections to BaBar tier A regional computing site

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RESOLVED

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Dec 06, 2000

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Network connectivity between SLAC and BINP, Novosibirsk

Investigation of poor throughput from SLAC to Novosirbirsk, resulting in successful recommendation for link upgrade

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RESOLVED

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Sep 11, 2000

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PARTIALLY RESOLVED

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Sep 03, 2000

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SLAC to ILAN (Israel) thruput

Poor performance between SLAC and Israel caused by ESnet upgrade to router using incorrect BGP configuration

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RESOLVED

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May 16, 2000

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Stanford to SLAC file transfer problems

Poor throughput between SLAc and Stanford campus, required resetting an ATM interface

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RESOLVED

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May 09, 2000

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UK to US QoS Testing

QoS did not appear to be working, the direction it was applied in was not congested

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RESOLVED

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May 02, 2000

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Throughput Performance between SLAC and CERN

Big asymmetry in the throughputs from SLAC to IN2P2 and vice versa, partially due to Cisco web cache

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NOT RESOLVED

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Apr 15, 2000

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Troubleshooting VPN Disconnects

Mainly some hints on tracking Microsoft VPN problems.

May 23, 1999

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Ping Measurement Pathology Examples

Pings from Linux to WNT on a LAN with normal RTT < 10 msec, manifest an unusual regularity in the sequence number separation of the pings with > 10msec. Probably an OS effect.

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RESOLVED