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- Their PingER MA is up and running and we are successfully gathering data. We are working on the reliability.
They have made progress on the Android version of the PingER MA.
- They now automatically get updated the Beacon list
- We are looking at how to store the data and set up a proxy
UM
March 22 March 2018 we started being unable to gather data from pinger.fsktm.um.edu.my (103.18.2.152).
- When one tries to ping by name it fails,
- However pinging by the IP address works:
- I thought it might be our DNS resolution, however, I also could not see it from Thailand, i.e. from http://202.28.194.4/toolkit/gui/reverse_traceroute.cgi?target=pinger.fsktm.um.edu.my&function=traceroute
- and I got the same result from a host in Pakistan http://comsatsswl.seecs.edu.pk:8080/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?target=pinger.fsktm.um.edu.my&function=traceroute
- Sent mail to Nor Badril Anuar. He investigated and it came back on its own and no measurements were lost.
Bebo (No update 3/8/2018)
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Adib has updated the paper on Internet Performance and its Reflection on Socioeconomic Development in the ASEAN Countries to IEEE Access and sent to Les and Bebo for review. It has been reviewed and suggestions returned to Adib. It looks very good. Adib has re-submitted it to IEEE Access. Hopefully, we will get a positive feedback this time.
Adib, Bebo, Les met with Southampton Web observatory person. There seemed to be enthusiasm. Adib was going to send some materials to Southampton. The person at Southampton gave us some links. Adib is in the early stages of exploring what web observatory data to link with such as business context indicators, social media and government sites. There is no update 3/29/2018.
NUST: (Updated 3/8/2018)
They have shortlisted candidates for the task of managing the Pakistani MAs.The students will be given a stipend. Now they are in the phase of selecting them. This involves bureaucracy so there will be a little delay. They will get new interns before summer starts, i.e. 6-8 weeks. Till then things will be little slow.
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XSS vulnerability in traceroute.pl
There is a modified version of the PingER traceroute.pl CGI script. The new version sanitizes the QUERY_STRING variables to prevent some just exposed cross-site-scripting (XSS, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) vulnerabilities. It is recommended that you replace the existing traceroute.pl script at your site with the new version, i.e. get (e.g. using wget) traceroute.pl from http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/traceroute/traceroute.pl and install in your CGI directory (often /var/www/cgi-bin or /usr/local/cgi-bin or /usr/lib/cgi-bin or /var/www/cgi-bin). You may need to make it executable with the command chmod a+x traceroute.pl. You can test it by loading the URL http://yourwebserver/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl.
Sent to PINGER-DEV@LISTSERV.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU march 31st, 2018.
PingER IPV6 support
- Working on how to support IPv6 Beacons so it is backwardly compatible, making tests. This is driven by Charnsak's needs for pinger6.cs.ubru.ac.th.
- We will need to add an item to the pingtable.pl form to enable the ability to select IPv4 or IPv6 measurements or both.
| Host | State | last seen | Status |
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| pinger-ncp.ncp.edu.pk | pinger-ncp.ncp.edu.pk down | Nov 29, 2018 | |
| 121.56.146.180 (pinger.kohat.edu.pk) | Down | Nov 22nd, 2018 | |
| pinger.daffiodilvarsity.edu.bd | Does not ping, name resolves, web site not accessible, sent email 4/29/2018, they did something and all is working again | April 21st 2018 | Fixed |
| pinger2.if.ufrj.br | Flaky, down since 4/28/2018, an and out of disk space, pinerpinger.xml truncated, emaile, sent email 4/28/2017, they are looking at it | April 4/28/2018 | |
| pingeramity.in | It was working, now working on reliability | April 27, 2018 |
Next Meeting
Next meeting: Thursday, May 3rd 9pm June 7th 9pm Pacific time; Friday, May 4th, 2018 9June 10th, 2018 9:00am Pakistan time; 12:00noon Malaysian & Guangzhou time; and 11am Thailand time.
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GZHU (moved here 3/8/2018)
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