[aklug] Re: Alaskan external monitoring

From: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>
Date: Wed Sep 23 2015 - 14:44:19 AKDT

Interesting - and surprising. Those are the same IPs as their
authoritative DNS servers. It's generally considered good practice to keep
those separated.

Royce

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

> 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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