perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andy Lake <>]

Hi Bill,

The standard toolkit currently comes equipped with a home lookup service 
(hLS) but not a gLS which is a slightly different configuration. I'm also not 
entirely sure it would solve your problem anyways. To backup, what are you 
trying to accomplish? Do you have a toolkit installed and just want to get 
your services registered somewhere that's publicly accessible to others that 
want to test to you? or do you have something else in mind? It's also worth 
noting we are just a couple weeks away from rolling out an early version of a 
complete replacement for the lookup service, so I'd hate for you to do too 
much work to get things setup as the currently stand.

Thanks,
Andy

On Jan 2, 2013, at 3:04 PM, "Nickless, Bill" 
<>
 wrote:

> 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
>>> 
>>> 
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