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I changed the /usr/local/share/pinger/pinger.xml file to only ping the single beacon pinger.slac.stanford.edu and , to point to the above beacon list at http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/beacons-pingervm.txt and the <SrcName>172.23.52.7</SrcName>.
I changed the file /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/pinger/pinger2/share/pinger/pinger.xml from pointing to here to pointing to here in the <HostList>
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