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Re: Root level prodir combined results

Alan Shepherd <a.shepherd@nexor.co.uk> Tue, 04 January 1994 09:21 UTC

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From: Alan Shepherd <a.shepherd@nexor.co.uk>
Message-ID: <8479.757672381@nexor.co.uk>
To: Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: panamas@paradise.ulcc.ac.uk, osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <9401032313.AA08983@jarrah.itd.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Root level prodir combined results

In your message you said:
>      Probing from  Cambridge Computer Lab, SWITCH@Zurich, NEXOR, ULCC, Cambri
> dge Computer Lab,
> 
>      DSA Availability
>      === ============
> 
>      No DSAs had 100.00% availability.
> 
> Well I think if there was some way to remove the 52 "network
> unreachables" then there would be a few.
> 
> Has anyone thought of designing a probe that would actually report
> availablility of information rather than DSAs? It's all very well in
> saying DSA x is unavailable but what you really want to know is
> country a available (ie is one of the slaves or the master available
> to answer queries).
> 
> Mark.

Yes, we have thought about it in the past, but, as is the way of all
things, it needed funding which wasn't provided...

Alan

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