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The main purpose of TULIP Central Reflector is to proxy the TULIP queries to landmarks in PlanetLab's Scriptroute service, and the perfSONAR and PingER reverse ping servers. The PlanetLab Scriptroute service provides a cookie which works for a single IP address only. So in this way all the requests will be issued from the Central reflector and the responses will be sent back to the TULIP JNLP Client.
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