From: wansari@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waheed A Ansari)
Subject: FORMAL SERVER ANNOUNCEMENT & PING STATS FOR GEO1S (LONG)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:27:22 GMT


After conducting a prolonged test, the sysadmin here and I have determined
that a Netrek server does not pose any significant threat to the local
network in the foreseeable future.  Therefore we are posting this official,
formal server announcement, to notify you of my intention to keep Geo1s
operating on a regular basis.  The "Test of the Emergency Net-wrecking
System" is now over.  Geo1s will remain in HOCKEY mode for the rest of the
week, as it has been during the past week.  The server hours may be cut back
after classes begin in late September.  Server usage will continue to be low
until that time.  The Bronco database (as of 1 Aug 92) has been installed in
its entirety, without merging or editing of any sort.  If you played on
Bronco, you should be able to use the same character name, and password, with
the same rank and stats.

------------------------------- Server info -------------------------------

Address:       geo1s.mps.ohio-state.edu (128.146.130.2)
Port:          2592
Server source: Final Bronco distribution.
UDP:           version 1.0.
Hours:         Mon-Sat, 24 hours; Sundays, down during the daytime.
Cyborgs:       Not allowed.
Ping time to bronco:            30/31/40
Ping time to bezier:            100/115/150
Ping time to doorstop:          60/62/70
Ping time to discovery:         10/18/30
Ping time to matt.ksu.ksu.edu:  60/61/70
Ping times measured:    Mon Aug 17 19:22-19:28 EDT 1992, 10 std packets each.
Maintainer:    ansari@geo1s.mps.ohio-state.edu (Waheed Ansari)
Comments:      Uses Bronco player database.  Bronco-style hockey available.
               Xtwho daemon running on port 2591; for a list of players,
               type "telnet geo1s.mps.ohio-state.edu 2591".

As recommended for server announcements by some good folk, I'm including
ping stats obtained using 200 packets of 1000 data bytes (1008 bytes
total packet size) for each of the sites listed, at various times of
the day.  These were obtained simultaneously for all sites using "srvtst",
the throughput testing script made available by Jonathan E. Maier
(lectro@hardy.u.washington.edu); a very handy tool.  My apologies for
the length of this post.  Examine these statistics carefully and draw
your own conclusions.  Kinda explains why I play on legend.cma.fr in
the mornings.  The numbers in parentheses are packet loss percentages.



          Fri_00:00  8/14  Fri_07:00  8/14  Fri_12:00  8/14  Fri_15:00 8/14/92

bezier    170/218/670 (5)  170/175/230 (30) 170/186/230 (18) 170/212/390 (17)
bronco    80/83/140   (6)  70/80/130   (3)  80/85/150   (13) 80/85/120   (8)
rwd4      70/89/300   (4)  70/82/300   (16) 70/98/310   (21) 80/95/240   (12)
cis.ksu   120/125/180 (5)  120/123/190 (13) 120/130/610 (7)  120/137/510 (6)
sickdog   170/179/250 (14) 160/171/210 (1)  160/178/240 (10) 170/192/380 (6)
calvin    160/192/710 (2)  160/206/800 (9)  160/217/1220 (9) 160/238/980 (9)
tbird     120/121/160 (5)  110/122/190 (20) 120/127/230 (14) 120/126/220 (5)
doorstop  110/122/220 (8)  110/118/230 (0)  110/125/580 (4)  110/123/250 (13)
fife      110/113/200 (2)  110/136/200 (9)  110/117/260 (0)  110/119/230 (7)
sturgeon  120/132/310 (8)  120/127/170 (1)  120/135/240 (8)  120/138/270 (5)
discovery 60/61/80    (12) 60/61/140   (0)  60/63/130   (8)  60/63/100   (3)
bham.*.uk 340/395/520 (0)  350/527/740 (12) 360/557/760 (18) 340/370/500 (5)
legend*fr 330/354/1490 (4) # 330/378/630 (2)    **     (100) % 330/341/450 (9)
iacrs2*ch 290/315/590 (10) 290/318/840 (3)  300/336/650 (2)  290/319/510 (6)


          Fri_19:45  8/14  Fri_23:15  8/14  Sat_12:00  8/15  Mon_18:05 8/17/92

bezier    170/202/460 (12) 170/189/320 (31) 170/177/230 (10) 180/318/840 (29)
bronco    80/84/140   (13) 80/86/170   (5)  70/80/110   (0)  70/86/140   (24)
rwd4      70/83/180   (5)  70/83/180   (28) 70/81/110   (8)  70/87/230   (12)
cis.ksu   120/125/240 (0)  120/125/190 (0)  120/127/160 (11) 120/130/190 (12)
sickdog   170/181/290 (2)  170/181/650 (6)  160/174/270 (6)  170/292/790 (4)
calvin    160/216/970 (13) 160/218/840 (20) 160/199/1210 (9) 160/215/940 (12)
tbird     120/122/240 (6)  120/124/180 (12) 110/121/160 (1)  120/125/250 (20)
doorstop  110/121/250 (0)  110/120/180 (1)  110/121/260 (8)  110/123/170 (7)
fife      110/112/150 (0)  110/111/180 (0)  110/111/170 (1)  110/116/160 (5)
sturgeon  120/132/200 (2)  120/131/280 (0)  120/129/180 (12) 120/133/230 (4)
discovery 60/62/120   (1)  60/62/110   (1)  60/61/110   (0)  60/63/160   (1)
bham.*.uk 340/355/420 (0)  340/355/530 (2)  340/454/750 (4)  340/355/440 (7)
legend*fr 330/338/560 (1)  330/343/1240 (6) 330/334/400 (0)  330/367/1400 (1)
iacrs2*ch 280/296/660 (0)  280/295/490 (1)  280/293/620 (0)  280/308/930 (2)


# Tue_07:25 8/11/92 : legend.cma.fr unreachable on Fri_07:00, 8/14/92.
** See Sat_12:00 8/15/92 : legend.cma.fr unreachable on Fri_12:00, 8/14/92.
% Sat_15:00 8/15/92 : legend.cma.fr unreachable on Fri_15:00, 8/14/92.
The numbers in parentheses are packet loss percentages.

Waheed (ansari@geo1s.mps.ohio-state.edu)
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