TULIP landmarks are servers at well kown locations (lat/longs), that can ping a requested target 9typically at an unknown location) to use geolocation to find the location of the target. There are several sources of potential TULIP landmarks. These include PingER, perfSONAR and PlanetLabs.
Use the perfSONAR list of traceroute/ping servers. It is at: http://132.160.6.186/toolkit/gui/perfAdmin/directory.cgi#PING. This provide a list of IP names/address that host traceroute/ping servers. Then add to the perfSONAR toolkit host name (e.g. 192.41.236.35 or 2001:e10:3c00:3:5054:ff:fe12:ee41) the following
<perfsonar-toolkit-host>/toolkit/gui/reverse_traceroute.cgi?target=<target>&function=ping |
to create a URL: http://192.41.236.35/toolkit/gui/reverse_traceroute.cgi?target=www.upenn.edu&function=ping. The output should appear as below:
Most PingER monitoring sites have a traceroute/ping server. This is the same server CGI script (with a different URL) as the perfSONAR server CGI script so the output is the same. The URL for the PingER ping server is
<pinger-host>/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?target=<target>.edu&function=ping |
This creates a URL of the form http://pinger.arn.dz/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?target=www.slac.stanford.edu&function=ping