[aklug] Re: Alaskan external monitoring

Oops, bad at email. Sorry.

MTA hands out 216.152.176.1, 216.152.176.2 as dns servers (at least for our
Business DSL)

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Josh <hatlessman@gmail.com> wrote:

> MTA hands out 216.152.176.1, 216.152.176.2 as dns servers (at least for
> our Business DSL)
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 9:13 AM, JP <jp@jptechnical.com> wrote:
>
>> That is pretty cool Royce.
>>
>> Have you considered AWS free tier? Free for a year and easy to move to a
>> new account after it expires.
>> On Sep 19, 2015 8:23 AM, "Royce Williams" <royce@tycho.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm spinning up a cooperative effort to provide free, independent
>>> external monitoring and trending for Alaskan geeks.
>>>
>>> http://akmon.techsolvency.com/
>>>
>>> The goal is to capture baseline health for Alaskan shared
>>> infrastructure and core external services. I want to enable everyone
>>> to quickly and definitively resolve the recurring questions of "Is it
>>> working from outside our network?" and the "Is it our local upstream?"
>>>
>>> It's currently running out of a Digital Ocean VPS in SFO, so the
>>> latency has many upstream dependencies -- but it's independent from
>>> any specific Alaskan infrastructure. I may try to set up a Seattle
>>> instance if I can find hyper-affordable VPS hosting there.
>>>
>>> It's currently just SmokePing, but other stuff can be added pretty
>>> easily.
>>>
>>> Suggestions welcome, especially hosts to add.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why some of the smokeping HTTPS polling isn't working.
>>> It's using the EchoPingHttps poller. Anybody have any experience in
>>> this area?
>>>
>>> Royce
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