perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Nickless, Bill" <>]

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your quick response.

Unfortunately the (small-I) internet hosts are prohibited by technology and 
policy from accessing any of the hosts at 
http://www.perfsonar.net/gls.root.hints , and I don't have the authority to 
change that fact.

So I guess I'm going to have to set up my own gLS on that internet.  Is that 
task as simple as publishing a gls.root.hints file with pointers to otherwise 
standard perfSONAR Toolkit hosts, or do I need to set up additional 
infrastructure?

Thanks again and best regards,

Bill Nickless

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Lake 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 11:55 AM
> To: Nickless, Bill
> Cc: 
> ''
> Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Global Lookup Service configuration on a
> private internet?
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> You should not need any special configuration to access the hosts in the
> file. I can reach the one's that are running from Comcast-land so really
> anywhere should be able to access them. The current gLS has a number of
> stability issues and as such will be getting replaced in the very near
> future. Its quite possible some will not respond because they are in a
> bad state. Just doing some quick tests the ESnet and RNP instances all
> seem to respond.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:46 PM, "Nickless, Bill" 
> <>
> wrote:
> 
> > Good morning,
> >
> > I'm responsible for monitoring performance on a private (small-I)
> internet.  Hosts on this internet cannot resolve the DNS names nor
> establish TCP/IP connections to any of the hosts listed at
> http://www.perfsonar.net/gls.root.hints .
> >
> > Do I need to do any special configuration on the perfSONAR instances
> listed in the gls.root.hints file on the private internet?  Or is the
> bog standard perfSONAR Toolkit Lookup Service configuration also
> suitable for being a root server?
> >
> > Thank you and best regards,
> >
> > Bill Nickless
> > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
> > +1 509 713 2455
> >
> >