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

[Inaki Tekalal]

And Glider is in San Jose, CA ^^

On 5/4/06, Jason Foxdie Bhalla-Gaunt <foxdie at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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