reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) (12/02/89)
USENET FLOW ANALYSIS REPORT for NOV 89 This is the first article in a monthly posting series from the Network Measurement Project at the DEC Western Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. Textual articles in the series are posted to news.lists, and PostScript map files are posted to news.misc. In past months the map files have been posted to various other newsgroups, but invariably there were bitter complaints from somebody. If I have to move them out of news.misc because of any more bitter complaints, I'm going to put them in alt.restaurants. This flow analysis is based on a sample of data taken from 268 USENET sites. The sampling program was run voluntarily by the site administrators. It analyzed the contents of the news spooling directory and mailed a summary of what it found to the analysis mailbox at decwrl.dec.com. There the data is converted into a per-day flow rate, the flow information was combined together, and the resulting aggregate flows used to produce maps. The maps are all PostScript files. They can be printed on any PostScript printer and on many PostScript-compatible printers. They use features of PostScript that cannot be translated into most other page description schemes, such as HPGL. The PostScript map files are all transmitted in multiple parts, and there is an accompanying Makefile. To produce printable files, just assemble the various parts and the Makefile together in a directory and type "make". The following sites have contributed data. If you would like to contribute data from your site, please copy the program "inpaths" from a companion posting, install it, and run it at intervals. Ideally we would like you to run it once a month, to keep our data fresh. THESE SITES CONTRIBUTED DATA TO THE NOV 89 REPORT: (THANK YOU!!) ===================================================================== %s 6sigma acd4 acheron actisb alba2l alembic alias alliant altos altos86 anise.acc.com ark atha att attctc aunro auvax.athabascau.ca axion banzai basser bcstec bdgltd bjs bloom-beacon bnr-fos bnr-rsc brutus.cs.uiuc.edu bu-cs bucsb buengc cadre.dsl.pitt.edu caesar.cs.montana.edu caesar ccavax cctb.wa.com cdin-1 cg-atla cgch chance chip chyde cit5 claris clmqt.marquette.mi.us cloud9 comp.vuw.ac.nz cos cpoint crash crdgw1 crltrx cs.utexas.edu csd4.csd.uwm.edu csoftec ctisbv.cti-software.nl ctisbv ctnews cu.warwick.ac.uk dartvax dayvb dciem decuac deimos.cis.ksu.edu dell desint devon dialogic didsgn dlogics dplace drd dsinc dsndata dtscp1 dumbcat dvlmarv eds1 egsner elsie eltek esegue essex.ac.uk ethz-inf fallst fantasci fauern fernwood fpssun.fps.com fpssun frog fulcrum gatech genrad george ginosko gouldnl gpstwr grian gronk gt5000 gtisqr gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com hardy helios.ee.lbl.gov hemuli.atk.vtt.fi henry.jpl.nasa.gov hercules holtec hsi htsa hubcap ibiza.cs.miami.edu icad ics icus.islp.ny.us ida.org igor inco indetech indri inmos iotek irish isaak isy jarthur jetson jjmhome jolnet junkyard kl-cs koosh kullmar ladcgw lamc lavaca.uh.edu letni lll-winken loft386 loria lxn marob marque massey maxim mcgp1 megatek milhow1 minnow.sp.unisys.com monymsys moscom motcsd mountn.enet.dec.com mstar mti murdu n3dmc n7kbt nastar natinst nbires ncoast ncrats ncrcae ndsuvax netcom netsys nuchat nynashamn.telelogic.se obdient ogccse oha omero.enet.dec.com onecom ora parsely pcrat peregrine petro philmtl phoenix pilchuck polyslo psuhcx psuvax1 puck purdue pwa-b quad1 quick radio.astro.utoronto.ca rancho rand rducky resrch rochester rpi rtech sactoh0 samsung scifi seer seismo sequoia servalan shade shapetc shelby shodha.dec.com sics.se sigma sis slxsys sneaky snorkelwacker solbase sparky splut sri-unix ssbell stl.stc.co.uk sugar swbatl swbatl.swbt.com tabbs targon tarpit tcom.stc.co.uk texbell tkou02.enet.dec.com tness1 tness7 tnl trux tut.cis.ohio-state.edu u-word uakari.primate.wisc.edu uceng.uc.edu uci-ics ucqais ucsd uhnix1 uhnix2 uhura.cc.rochester.edu ukma unify usc uunet uxc ve7apu voder wa3wbu wang whizz wolf wuarchive wubios.wustl.edu wundt wundt.psy.vu.nl xait xanth xylogics yarra yourhost zardoz zinn zorch