On Jul 4, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Christoph Willing wrote: > I see that the multicast beacon at beacon.dast.nlanr.net is no longer > running - its unclear whether the domain even exists anymore. Also, > there is a notice at: > http://beacon2.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ > saying that the beacon service would be discontinued at 30th May. That > actually still seems to be running but no subscribers. > > Is there a new global beacon service that we can all use? > > BTW, in Asia Pacific area, we have also been using "dbeacon" which > some people prefer - apparently a lighter load on the machine > generating the html output display (in this case, run at AARNet). For > those interested, see: > http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/howto/dbeacon.html > > > Multicast beacons generally are really useful diagnostic tools and > everyone should subscribe to them - the question is where? Is any site > able to run a service like the ncsa or dast.nlanr.net used to? > > Do people want to change over to dbeacon? > > > chris > > > Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8316 > QCIF Access Grid Manager > University of Queensland
There has also been discussion at the Internet2 Multicast mailing list. https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/wg-multicast And a couple of people have volunteered an alternative version 1.4 beacon and a dbeacon as at least interim beacons for the community to use. http://bbmon2-1.gw.uiuc.edu/matrix-global?full=1&what=ssmorasm&att=loss&at= http://k2.nrc.ca/beacon/central_loss.html > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "William F. Maton Sotomayor" <wma...@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca> >> Date: June 9, 2011 12:48:23 PM CDT >> To: Zenon Mousmoulas <zmo...@admin.grnet.gr> >> Cc: Multicast Working Group <wg-multic...@internet2.edu> >> Subject: RE: NCSA Beacon page gone after 5/30/2011 >> Reply-To: "wma...@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca" <wma...@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca> >> >> On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Zenon Mousmoulas wrote: >> >>> One thing I forgot: The NLANR/DAST beacon seems to up and running again >>> today: >>> http://beacon.dast.nlanr.net/ >> >> Until the community decides, anyone is free to aim their 1.4 version of >> the beacon at k2.nrc.ca. >> > Begin forwarded message: > From: Debbie Fligor <fli...@illinois.edu> > Date: June 20, 2011 10:26:52 PM CDT > To: Multicast Working Group <wg-multic...@internet2.edu> > Cc: Debbie Fligor <fli...@illinois.edu> > Subject: Re: NCSA Beacon page gone after 5/30/2011 ... > A little bird told me we might be seeing someone pickup the mbeacon server, > and perhaps someone else offer up a central web site to track dbeacon users > of a global group. But those are both down the road. For the moment, anyone > is welcome to use 233.0.38.38 for a global dbeacon group. Please limit > yourself to 1 host per site, my end of this is a little, old, Mac mini, but > you should be able to look here: > > http://bbmon2-1.gw.uiuc.edu/matrix-global/ > > and see if you're making it to my campus (or not). > > If someone else has a nicer group address to offer, I'm happy to change. I > can't offer IPv6 multicast or SSM, since we don't have those here, but there > is nothing stopping people from running those features as well and making it > even more useful. > > Sorry it took me so long to get back to this thread, a few other things (like > IPv6 day work) trumped me having time to work on this. But I did get one > host up and the web page working. > > -debbie --- Bruce Curtis bruce.cur...@ndsu.edu Certified NetAnalyst II 701-231-8527 North Dakota State University
