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Re: Call for Volunteers in Internet Routing Stability Study
- To: "Carl Malamud [IMS]" <carl@media.org>
- Subject: Re: Call for Volunteers in Internet Routing Stability Study
- From: "William B. Norton" <wbn@umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 16:08:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: dunl@home.merit.edu
Great news Carl! Thanks!
Bill
At 04:05 PM 8/15/96 -0400, Carl Malamud [IMS] wrote:
>Hi Bill -
>
>I've sent a note out to our Central Park group (http://park.org).
>Should be able to install daemons in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Amsterdam,
>and possibly a few other places. Give us a couple of days to sort
>out who is going to do the installs and I'll send a note to Dun.
>
>Also sent this on to Rob Blokzijl in Amsterdam, who might be
>able to get you up and running in alot of the E. European
>countries.
>
>Carl
>
>
>According to William B. Norton:
>>
>> C a l l f o r V o l u n t e e r s !
>>
>> Hi -
>>
>> Merit Network is seeking volunteers to participate in an Internet routing
>> stability measurement initiative. This project provides one of the few
>> global Internet performance measurements, allowing the participants (and the
>> Internet community) to gain empirical insights regarding Internet routing
>> stability trends. We hope to be able to answer questions including:
>>
>> During the past year of explosive Internet growth, is the end-user seeing
>> Internet stability improving, getting worse, or remaining about the same?
>>
>> What types of routing anomalies are present in the Internet?
>>
>> >From an end-user perspective, are there parts of the Internet infrastructure
>> that appear to have chronic problems?
>>
>> We are seeking about 50 geographically distributed volunteers to install the
>> Network Probe Daemon (NPD) on their Unix machine. NPD is a unix daemon that
>> issues traceroute commands to other NPD hosts sites. The end result is a
>> matrix of network paths. The matrix is processed in various ways,
>> specifically noting routing anomalies and otherwise unexpected results. The
>> load on the machine is minimal and security is accomplished using an
>> authentication key. This is a continuation of the work done by Vern Paxson
>> (LBL).
>>
>> If you would like to volunteer, please download the software at:
>> ftp://nic.merit.edu/routing.arbiter/tools/npd-1.0.tar.Z
>>
>> and send e-mail to dunl@merit.edu. The INSTALL file has all the information
>> needed to install the NPD software.
>>
>> When you contact Dun, he will then verify that the software was installed
>> correctly. We expect to start the routing stability measures during the
>> next few weeks in August, so please don't delay.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Bill Norton & Dun Liu
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> William B. Norton <wbn@merit.edu> (313) 936-2656
>>
>
>
>
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William B. Norton <wbn@merit.edu> (313) 936-2656
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