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Re: VPS/Gaming companies with backbone


From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:20:14 -0800

I know the risk of having stale data. that is why I am trying to really
focus on first enabling crowd sourcing abilities and then parsing emails,
tweets, etc.

Providers will most likely not want to share their outages due ti “bad
marketing reasons” but you are right some might

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:09 AM Alfie Pates <alfie@fdx.services> wrote:

I would be hesitant to include this kind of information if you don't have
a plan for keeping it recent and accurate - there's a real risk your data
will become stale quickly, at which point it stops being useful to people.

Perhaps ask providers if you can subscribe to those, and automatically
parse their emails? Easier said than done, but it does provide much more
useful information than "hearsay"/pinging some server you do not control
that may or may not be on the other end of a specific link.


-A


On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, at 4:07 AM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:

hi there,

I do not know which gaming companies have backbone and which do not. I am
trying to find a way to automate the https://dev.networkatlas.org backbone
link up/down information using some gaming servers (i guess i am playing
too much games nowadays as I came up with this idea)

currently the model https://dev.networkatlas.org is following is
basically crowd-sourced data input similar to wikipedia model where if a
link is down, a user goes and reports that and once verified by a trusted
member (editor/admin/ambassador whatever you wanna call the trusted source)
the link changes. We are trying to think out of the box on how we can
possible automate this.

if you have any ideas beside telecom giants to share this information via
email , let me know. If you are network admin/engineer/architect in a
gaming company please ping me offline and see how this could be automated
with a script running on multiple gaming servers.

(can think out of the box , but not out of xbox apparently)

thank you :)

Mehmet


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