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Bebo
Bebo brought our attention to a report from KeepitOn on the 213 Internet shutdowns in 2019. An internet shutdown happens when someone — usually a government — intentionally disrupts the internet or mobile apps to control what people say or do.
NUST
IPv6 host at NUST:
Wajahat has requested Hasan to install PingER on an IPv6 host at NUST, Saqib has contacted Hasan to tell him where to find and upload the code. There is not a host name for the MA yet. Hopefully, this will be available by next month's meeting.
- 7/24/2019 Les emailed Wajahat with a request for an update.
- At the meeting Wajahat had asked the student to contact Saqib and get the information on energizing IPv6. Saqib provided the information, but the student could not access the URL (apparently the URLwas down). Wajahat was on leave and when he returned the internship had expired, so Wajahat is unsure what happened. Wajahat will start a new student next week and will set him on the IPv6 project. Progress?
Sent email on 2/4/2020 to Kiran at NUST on how to bring the vu host's pinger.xml up to date. As of 2/3/2020 pinger.xml at vu now looks good and we now appear to be able to gather good data.
We are working on maggie2, monitor and nwfpuet:
- On 2/16/2020 sent emails to Kiran about monitor.seecs.edu.pk not being pingable, maggie2.seecs.edu.pk not responding to http://maggie2.seecs.edu.pk/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl?, and pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk looking like it has a bad pinger.xml file (missing the BeaconList).
- Emails exchanged on maggie2 2/18/2020. Not there yet.
- 2/26/2020 corresponded with Kiran via zoom to clarify problems. She is working on monitor, maggie2, nwfpuet.
UAF (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad)/GHZU
Saqib plans to continue work on PingER monitoring for remote areas, in particular in Pakistan. He will use Android PingERs. This may partially tie into the Amity project.
He will also continue his work on Blockchain and plans to attend a Blockchain workshop in Guangzhou.
Saqib plans to get 2-3 undergraduate students in a month or so and plans to look at Android PingER.
SLAC
We are working on maggie2, monitor and nwfpuet:
- On 2/16/2020 sent emails to Kiran about monitor.seecs.edu.pk not being pingable, maggie2.seecs.edu.pk not responding to http://maggie2.seecs.edu.pk/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl?, and pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk looking like it has a bad pinger.xml file (missing the BeaconList).
- Emails exchanged on maggie2 2/18/2020. Not there yet.
- 2/26/2020 corresponded with Kiran via zoom to clarify problems. She is working on monitor, maggie2, nwfpuet.
- 4/14/2020 Kiran reports: "due to coronavirus we are not going to university. But I have requested the university admin to cooperate with me and install a teamviewer so that I can remotely access the PC and the monitor and maggie2. If university does so then I will call you on skype so that we can resolve the issue."
UAF (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad)/GHZU
Saqib plans to continue work on PingER monitoring for remote areas, in particular in Pakistan. He will use Android PingERs. This may partially tie into the Amity project.
He will also continue his work on Blockchain and plans to attend a Blockchain workshop in Guangzhou.
Saqib plans to get 2-3 undergraduate students in a month or so and plans to look at Android PingER.
SLAC
- Bebo posed the question of whether PingER can identify changes in Internet responsiveness as measured by PingER as a result of the impact of the Covid-19 virus.
- The first attempts looking et PingER statistics and see if there were
- Bebo posed the question of whether PingER can identify changes in Internet responsiveness as measured by PingER as a result of the impact of the Covid-19 virus.
- The first attempts looking et PingER statistics and see if there were any noticeable changes in performance attributable to Covid-19 interventions (e.g. shutting down schools, social distancing, gathering cancellations, lockdowns), were not very successful (see PingER and COVID-19). See https://covid19-interventions.com/ for interventions in European, and some Asian countries.
- Another attempt to correlate the impacts might be to use a tool such as Google Motion Charts to look for correlations between say Covid-19 cases (cases, hospital admissions, deaths etc) and PingER metrics as a function of time, by country, continent, plus population or density of population. The idea is that as Covid-19 cases pass say 100, the country will impose interventions such as school closing, social distancing etc. which will change the usage patterns of the Internet which may have noticeable impacts on the PingER measurements.
- Unfortunately Google Motion metrics relies on Flash and is no longer supported .
- A possible alternative is Charta.ca
- I have therefore put together a Perl script (chart-covid.pl) to take daily PingER metrics for the last 120 days together with up-to-date raw data on the coronavirus from the Johns Hopkins from their HopkinsUniversity GitHub site: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19, for various countries with their population, area, population density and cast the data in a format suitable for Charta.ca.
Umar
State of MAs.
- There is a web page I put together on how to use Charta.ca at Using Chart.ca.
- There is an example at https://charteca.blob.core.windows.net/pubs/3Z3qcBXqCT9B3WHz
Umar
State of MAs.
Host | State | last seen | Status |
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| pinger.nchc.org.tw | Intermittent problems starting 11/9/2019, it is not pingable starting 11/12/2019. Fixed 3/24/2020. | ||
| pinger.rmutsv.ac.th | Unable to gather data since November 13, 2019. Host is pingable. Sent email to chaisit.c@rmutsv.ac.th 3/26/2020. No response by 4/13/2020 | ||
| pinger.gcwuf.edu.pk | Unable to gather data since 3/31/2020, host is not pingable. Email sent to Saqib 4/13/2020 | 3/31/2020 | |
| pinger.vu.edu.pk | Unable to gather data since 29th August, 2019. The host is pingable. Emailed Wajahat 11/3/2019. Wajahat responded 11/11/2019 "Anything improved?". Les responded they are still not working with more details and suggesting we focus on vu. 11/20/2019 Les asks if there is an update? Wajanat responded 11/20/2019 "These guys are not responding. We are trying to contact them. Already tried multiple times." This just applies to vu. Wajahat recommends we keep trying to gather data. I have turned off the warnings. Kiran fixed it 2/3/2020 by restoring the pinger.xml file following email instructions from Les | 8/28/2019 | Fixed 2/3/2020. |
| comsatsswl.seecs.edu.pk | Unable to gather data since 3/26/20210, hoast not pingable. Disabled by Cottrell 4/13/2020. | ||
| monitor.seecs.edu.pk | No data since 10/29/2019, host is pingable email to Wajahat 11/7/2019. Reminder to Kiran and Wajahat 2/16/2020. Host not pingable sent email to Kiran and Wajahat 3/3/2020. Email sent to Kiran and Wajahat 4/13/2020. | 10/27/2019 | |
| maggie2.seecs.edu.pk | No data since 11/4/2019, host is pingable email to Wajahat 11/2/2019, 11/20/2019. Reminder to Kiran and Wajahat 2/16/2020. Host no longer pingable, sent email to Kiran and Wajahat 3/3/2020. Email sent to Kiran and Wajahat 4/13/2020. | ||
| pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk | Something amiss since April 2019 when it dropped from monitoring over 150 targets down to 4. There is nothing in <BeaconsList>, all the hosts it attempts to monitor are in the locally manually maintained <NodeList>. Does not ping by name. Email sent 11/7/2019, and again 11/20/2019. Reminder to Kiran and Wajahat 2/16/2020. Email sent to Kiran and Wajahat 4/13/2020. |
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Next meeting: There will be a Doodle poll, for 2020 at 9 pm Pacific time; a day later 9:00 am Pakistan time; 9:30 am India time; 12:00 pm Malaysian & Guangzhou time; 1:00 pm Thailand time; 6:00 am Jordan time. 5:00am Turkey time.
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NUST moved here 4/14/2020
Pv6 host at NUST:
Wajahat has requested Hasan to install PingER on an IPv6 host at NUST, Saqib has contacted Hasan to tell him where to find and upload the code. There is not a host name for the MA yet. Hopefully, this will be available by next month's meeting.
- 7/24/2019 Les emailed Wajahat with a request for an update.
- At the meeting Wajahat had asked the student to contact Saqib and get the information on energizing IPv6. Saqib provided the information, but the student could not access the URL (apparently the URLwas down). Wajahat was on leave and when he returned the internship had expired, so Wajahat is unsure what happened. Wajahat will start a new student next week and will set him on the IPv6 project. Progress?
Sent email on 2/4/2020 to Kiran at NUST on how to bring the vu host's pinger.xml up to date. As of 2/3/2020 pinger.xml at vu now looks good and we now appear to be able to gather good data.
SLAC moved here 4/13/2020.
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