-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Noggers, I'd think some of you may be interested in a project run by some friends of mine: the NLNOG RING. Project came out of the NLNOG (the Dutch NOG) discussions. It's based around the goals of making network debugging easier. When trying to debug complex problems and plan future upgrades, a point of view from outside your network is absolutely essential. Seeing what others see is incredibly useful when dealing with a variety of network problems. Well known examples are ‘it works for even numbered ip address, but not for odd numbered ip address via this and this route’. So tired of asking people to do traceroutes and wait for results, NLNOG RING was formed. In essence the project is very simple: you make a (virtual) machine available to the RING, and you gain access on all other servers which are part of the RING. The project currently has 108 nodes, located on 100 participant networks in 25 countries. Was just looking and see that NZ is missing on that list, the home of the rings, so thought I'd send this out. The RING provides tools to trivially launch a ping from all these nodes and summarize the results to, other examples are distributed tracerouting and MTU testing. The RING also maintains a record of latencies between nodes using smokeping to help identify historic problems. I say, have a look at https://ring.nlnog.net/ for more information. A map of current node locations is available here: https://ring.nlnog.net/map And email ring-admins(a)ring.nlnog.net directly with any questions you have. I am sure the they will send some good beer for the next NOG to make this on topic. - - gaurab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/YkBwACgkQSo7fU26F3X2z9wCgo3bciqJuKD4TY48/TC9WEMH5 RPQAoO8o/lo4liNO1AjbVXAQpona6ETd =/AAz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----