On August 5h 2019 India revoked the special status of Jammu Kashmir, see here.
It would be interesting to see if there is any impact on the Internet connectivity to Universities in Jammu Kashmir that is correlated with the recent or future changes.
To do this we need targets that are located in Jammu Kashmir. We can find universities that are located in JK using:
From Wikipedia Les obtained the following universities in Jammu Kashmir
- The URL is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_institutions_of_higher_education_in_Jammu_and_Kashmir
- If the host does not respond to a ping then the host is not useful to PingER
- If the RTT is <200ms then I posit the host is not in Jammu Kashmir and is not of interest to PingER
- The Lat/long is found using Google maps, searching for the University, moving the mouse over it and right clicking (ctrl click on Mac).
- The AS of the last traceroute hop is found using e.g. https://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?target=www.skuast.org&function=traceroute
- The owner of the AS is found using http://asn.cymru.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi
- http://www.uok.edu.in/, unknown, web no response,
- http://www.skuastkashmir.ac.in/, web site responds, ping 16ms
- http://www.jammuuniversity.in/, 116.193.161.3, web responds, no pings
- http://skimsmc.edu.in/, ,suspended
- http://www.skimsmc.edu.in(166.62.10.226): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=181 ms
- https://www.skuast.org/(103.35.120.78): icmp_seq=1 ttl=43 time=285 ms, web responds, traceroute last (14th) hop 14.140.113.58.static-Delhi-vsnl.net.in (14.140.113.58) [AS4755=TATACOMM-AS TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP, IN] 292.209 ms A later traceroute gave hop(20) vps21.pugmarks.in (103.35.120.24) [AS134255[PUGMARKS-AS Pugmarks InterWeb Pvt. Ltd., IN]/AS38546] 283.701 ms
- http://www.cujammu.ac.in//(205.144.171.55): icmp_seq=1 ttl=112 time=14.3 ms, web responds
- http://www.cukashmir.ac.in/(132.148.80.84): icmp_seq=1 ttl=114 time=19.5 ms
- https://www.smvdu.ac.in/(166.62.27.186): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=191 ms
- http://www.iustlive.com/(202.66.174.254): icmp_seq=1 ttl=107 time=268 ms, traceroute last AS17439 is NETMAGIC-AP Netmagic Datacenter Mumbai, IN
- https://www.bgsbuniversity.org/(104.27.187.69): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=1.72 ms
This yields 2 Universities
However, we are by no means sure the target hosts are really in Jammu Kashmir (e.g. they maybe proxies in say Delhi, or Mumbai).
So I am wondering what the ping times and traceroutes look like from say Amity or NUST. Maybe that can provide more assurance or otherwise that the targets are in JK. Or do you have other ideas for finding targets in JK.
Right now I cannot access:
http://202.12.103.71/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=traceroute&target=www.skuast.org&options=-i%200.2 to run a traceroute from Amity.
In fact, the Amity PingER MA is seldom accessible from SLAC and even when accessible there are few recorded ping measurements. Can someone take a look at this.