This meeting: July 11th 10 pm Pacific time; a day later 10:00 am Pakistan time; 10:30 am India time; 1:00 pm Malaysian & Guangzhou time; 12:00 pm Thailand time; 7:00 am Jordan and 6:00am Turkey.
Doodle poll invites sent 5/27/2019.
New items and updates are in boldface.
Mailing list: pinger-my@googlegroups.com for membership see https://groups.google.com.
Wajahat Hussain+ (SEECS), Saqib+ (GZHU); Johari+ (UNIMAS); Adib (Turkey); Dr. Charnsak Srisawatsakul (Ubru), Eyad Ayoubi (Jordan), Baraa Muslmani+ ( Jordan), Dr. Shadi Jawarneh (Jordan), Bebo White+, Umar Kalim, Les Cottrell+
Saqib, Wajahat, Les
IMPORTANT NOTE: The meeting is set up to record automatically. By joining the meeting you are agreeing to be recorded (see details)
What: PingER Standing Meeting
When: June 11, 2019 10:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
How to set up and use Zoom:
To use the software, you would have to download the Zoom client (and installed if prompted). The instructions to do so are listed here: https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting
The instructions about setting up the software are listed at the URL below. You may want to create an account if you do not have one already. If you are invited to a meeting (i.e., you are not hosting the meeting), you are not required to create an account; you can simply join the meeting using the meeting ID.
Time to start thinking about this. Do we need one?
What does it affect?
Possible scenarios
NODENAME: www.gju.edu.jo IPADDRESS: 87.236.233.242 SITENAME: gju.edu.jo NICKNAME: JO.EDU.GJU.WWW FULLNAME: German Jordanian University LOCATION: German Jordanian University, Amman Madaba Street, Amman, Jordan COUNTRY: Jordan CONTINENT: Middle East LATANDLONG: 31.7769 35.8 PROJECTTYPE: NOT-SET PINGSERVER: NOT-SET TRACESERVER: NOT-SET DATASERVER: NOT-SET URL: http://www.gju.edu.jo/ CONTACTS: Google COMMENTS: Add by Cottrell 5/17/2018.
Following this information you will need to edit pinger.xml to add a stanza in <HostList></HostList> of the form:
<HostList>
<Host> | |
<EnableDNSCache>false</EnableDNSCache> | |
<IP>87.236.233.242</IP> | |
<Name>www.gju.edu.jo</Name> | |
</Host> |
</HostList>
Amity team photo:
Android progress:
Bebo reviewed and responded to Adib suggesting the second one is a better choice. Adib submitted it to the 2nd journal. He sent email 4/20/2019: "we received an unfavorable response from the information society. So sad that this paper does not get enough attention from journal editors. But I will keep trying, let's pray for the best."
It has been submitted with the title: Submission title: Socio-economic Development Indices and Their Reflection on Internet Performance in ASEAN Countries to Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal. They have requested a re-submission "Please apply "author template" which can be found in "guide for authors" page. We declare in our Guide for Authors page that: All authors are requested to use the Author Template and prepare their articles as the editorial board of the journal has decided to limit all published pages within 10 pages. Therefore, we do not proceed with the peer-review process if authors do not submit their articles using the Author Template and limit the manuscript to 10 pages including all content."
Kind regards,
JESTECH Editor
Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal
Wajahat suggested a letter to the higher-ups at NUST about PingER would assist. Les worked with Wajahat to craft such a letter. It was sent to Wajahat by email 4/3/2019. It was sent by paper mail 4/4/2019 to Principal SEECS.
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.
Wajahat has 2 students, he will propose some PingER related projects to them.
Wajahat said that contacts at some sites are not very interested in PingER and wonder why there are so many pings. Thus he believes we need new sites representing the regions of Pakistan that have willing collaborators. Thus we should give up on sites such as CAE and ISRA that have not had any data to gather for a year or so. Les has since disabled these sites.
We have not been able to gather data from maggie1.seecs.edu.pk since March 2019. Sent email to Wajahat, he responded that it may be an IPv6 host. Tried accessing using IPv6 but no success.
Saqib joined the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad. He plans to pursue the blockchain paper.
Charnsak is looking at a host in Champasak University, Chan Parsa province in Laos as a potential site for a PingER MA. Charnsak just got approved to make contact with the Champasak University. He expects to set up the MA in the next 4-5 months (say towards end 2018). It also depends on the partner university, and there may be a lot of paperwork. 4/9/2019 Charnsak said we need to drop this.
Need to add Umar Kalim to http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger/contact.php. From the 7/5/2018 meeting: Johari can't ssh into the server so he will go to it on Monday. He will also upload the new UNIMAS PingER website next week.
Email from Johari 4/21/2019: I am still very much interested in the project but I have to manage my time better. Will try to join the next meeting and probably get someone from my side to monitor the equipment and make use of the data collected
Umar fixed up the PingER deployment map at http://wanmon.slac.stanford.edu/wan-mon/viper/pinger-coverage-gmap.html by updating the Google map key. Also they shut down (since it did not support SSL) a web server (www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu) I was using which is causing some PingER web cronjobs to fail. Nothing too serious at the moment, I am working to see if the problem can be fixed. Also tighter security was imposed on https which broke some links to get the pinger.xml configuration file.
Host | State | last seen | Status |
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pinger2.if.ufrj.br | Unable to gather data since 1st July, 2019. Senet email 6/2/2019 to Vinícius Ferrão <ferrao@if.ufrj.br>, he responded that there had been a power outage and he has re-established it. | 6/1/2019 | Fixed 6/3/2019 |
pinger.uum.edu.my | Unable to gather data since 2nd May 2019. Host is pingable. Sent email 5/5/2019 to Adib, he will contact Dr. Suhaidi. Sent reminder 5/14/2019, Adib has contacted Dr Suhaidi who will get someone to help. Still down 6/2/2019, sent another reminder to Adib. | 5/2/2019 | |
pinger.es.net | Unable to gather data as of May 24th, 2019. Host is pingable. May have run out of disk space. Sent email 6/2/2019 to Chin Guok suggesting update ping_data.pl and install the data trimmer. Chin responded 6/3/2019, looking at updating ping_data.pl first to diagnose the problem. Installed new pinger2.pl, ping_data.pl and updated pinger.xml to add <BeaconList>. | 5/24/2019 | Fixed 6/5/2019 |
pinger6.cs.ubru.ac.th | Unable to gather data, pings. Email sent 5/24/2019 | 5/20/2019 | Fixed 5/29/2019 |
pinger.unimas.my | Unable to gather data, does not ping. Email sent 5/24/2019. Johari responded that he will look at it. Sent reminder 6/2/2019. | 5/20/2019 | |
rainbow.inp.nsk.su | Unable to gather data starting 4/19/2019, also cannot ping the host. Sent email 4/25/2019. Sergy responded 4/30/2019 he has moved on unclear there is a follow on contact. Probably will disable | April 17, 2019 | Disabled 5/8/2019. |
brunsvigia.tenet.ac.za | Len Lotz the contact is working on getting his people to move MA to a VM | April 17, 2019 | Moved to VM 5/1/2019 |
netmon.physics.carleton.ca | Unable to gather data, host is pingable and http://netmon.physics.carleton.ca/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl? responds. It appears the pinger.xml file is corrupted. Email sent 4/28/2019 | April 23, 2019 | Fixed June 30, 2019 |
pingeramity.in | Unable to gather data since March 29, 2019, unable to ping it, sent email 4/3/2019, got response (4/3/2019) they will look into it. | March 29, 2019 | Fixed 4/5/2019 |
rainbow.inp.nsk.su | Unable to gather data starting March 19, 2019. The host is pingable and web is responding. Email sent 4/3/2019. Recommend update ping_table.pl | March 19, 2019 | Fixed 4/3/2019 |
pinger6.cs.ubru.ac.th | Stopped being pingable 2/25/2019. Thus by default, the gathering failed. Gathering also fails to http://202.29.20.125/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl . Emailed Charnsak 3/4/2019, 3/15/2019. Down again 4/23/2019, restored 4/27/2019. | 2/25/2019 | Fixed 3/16/2019. |
pinger.isra.edu.pk | Down, it came up Sep 2-4, 2018. It is pinging, however, all the targets are not responding after 31 tries, email sent to Wajahat 9/18/2018. As of 10/14/2018 it is not pingable. Working again as of 1/5/2019. It started again1/26/2019. It does not respond to pings from SLAC but does respond to http://pinger.isra.edu.pk/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl? which is used to get the data. However, the data indicate that none of the pings respond, e.g. pinger.isra.edu.pk 121.52.154.228 pinger.fsktm.um.edu.my 103.18.2.152 100 1548633600 31 0 i.e. all 31 pings fail and 0 give any response. When one tries to ping from pinger.isra.edu.pk using http://pinger.isra.edu.pk/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=ping&target=www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu&options=-i%200.2 the web page responds but all pings from isra fail. Email sent to Wajahat 1/28/2019. Started working again 1/30/2019. Stopped being pingable and unable to gather data 2/11/2019. 3/2/2019 can gather data but all the pings are failing. This is not a normal failure mode. Emailed Wajahat 3/3/2019, 3/15/2019. | March 6, 2018 | Fixed 1/5/2019 Failed again starting 1/26/2019. Working again 1/30/2019 Disabled 4/28/2019 |
maggie1.seecs.edu.pk | Unable to gather data since March 26, 2019. Sent email to Wajahar 5/25/2019. Should we Disable it or is someone working on it? Wajahat said it might be an IPv6 node, however, ping6 from pinger.slac.stanford.edu to maggie1 does not work. | March 26, 2019 | |
cae.seecs.edu.pk | At the request of Wajahat re-enabled but unable to gather data | Over a year ago | Disabled 4/17/2019 |
Umar is looking at the scamper project from CAIDA, see https://www.caida.org/tools/measurement/scamper/. Les will put Umar in contact with the scamper folks (email sent 4/28/2019)
Unfortunately, for the IPv4 vs IPv6 comparison, there is insufficient data (i.e. only about targets)
Next meeting: There will be a Doodle poll, for August 8-11 8-11pm or August 15-18 at 10 pm Pacific time; a day later 10:00 am Pakistan time; 10:30 am India time; 1:00 pm Malaysian & Guangzhou time; 2:00 pm Thailand time; 7:00 am Jordan time. 6:00am Turkey time.