[AC-Admins] Network link configuration and a bit of data collection

[Jason "Foxdie" Bhalla-Gaunt]

Results from Squirrel can be found at 
http://www.foxdie.co.uk/priv/traces.log

As for Squirrels actual location, I only know it's in Germany :)

Pippin Bear wrote:
> This morning I saw the discussion in #opers last night about the state
> of the network and thought I'd try to do something about it.
> 
> For each server, could someone please do a traceroute from that server
> to each other server in the list below and mail me the results, please?
> I will accumulate the output here: http://husky.floof.org/anthrochat/
> I'll then mull over the results and see if I can propose a better link
> plan for the network.
> 
> Easy way to get the traceroutes (works on Debian, might not work on
> others): paste this into a POSIX /bin/sh-compatible shell on your server
> and mail me the output.
> 
> ##### cut here #####
> for dest in 66.71.226.37:cheetah.anthrochat.net \
>             208.185.247.163:glider.anthrochat.net \
>             213.166.30.68:husky.anthrochat.net \
>             205.244.242.238:lion.anthrochat.net \
>             67.18.92.223:otter.anthrochat.net \
>             65.110.40.90:pholph.anthrochat.net \
>             66.148.84.24:snowleopard.anthrochat.net \
>             83.246.116.54:squirrel.anthrochat.net \
>             204.14.18.130:tixen.anthrochat.net
> do
>   addr="$(expr "$dest" : '\(.*\):')"
>   name="$(expr "$dest" : '.*:\(.*\)')"
>   echo; echo "$name"; echo "$name" | tr -c '\n' =; echo
>   mtr --report "$addr" || /usr/sbin/traceroute "$addr" || traceroute "$addr"
>   echo
> done
> ##### cut here #####
> 
> [I prefer using mtr (<URL:http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/>, apt-gettable
> in Debian) to traceroute these days myself: it uses ICMP instead of UDP
> so works through more firewalls, it tends to send packets more evenly
> spaced which helps get realistic results and is nicer to the network,
> and it runs in a more predictable amount of time.  Also the output is
> prettier. ;) The only downside I've found so far is that it seems to
> ignore (some?) ICMP errors coming back; won't show "network unreachable"
> replies for example.]
> 
> If the above script doesn't work for you, here's the list of hosts to
> traceroute to.  Please trace using the IP address, not the name - otter,
> at least, is currently CNAMEd to a rotary.
> 
> 66.71.226.37    cheetah.anthrochat.net
> 208.185.247.163 glider.anthrochat.net
> 213.166.30.68   husky.anthrochat.net
> 205.244.242.238 lion.anthrochat.net
> 67.18.92.223    otter.anthrochat.net
> 65.110.40.90    pholph.anthrochat.net
> 66.148.84.24    snowleopard.anthrochat.net
> 83.246.116.54   squirrel.anthrochat.net
> 204.14.18.130   tixen.anthrochat.net
> 
> While we're at it, could you also let me know two other things.  First,
> the physical location of your server, rounded to the nearest town or city,
> so that I can put it in the right place on the Google-based map I want
> to get back to working on soon.  I'll list the info I have on the same
> page as above.
> 
> Second, which servers you'd like notifications about from nagios, and what
> email addresses you'd like the notifications to go to.  Personally, I'm
> going to have notifications for all servers, because I'm nosy like that.
> By default I'll assume you want notifications for your own server only,
> and to send them to your email address as subscribed to the mailing list.
> (I plan to stop sending alerts to the mailing list soon, because those
> often seem to get delayed and are then useless and spammy.)  I'm happy
> to send to multiple addresses for you if you like.  If you want terse
> emails sent to an address which forwards to an SMS phone or pager,
> please mention that.
> 
> Wheee.
> 
> Pippin
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> 
> 

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