reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) (09/01/89)
USENET FLOW ANALYSIS REPORT for AUG 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 250 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 AUG 89 REPORT: (THANK YOU!!) ===================================================================== 6sigma acheron afit-ab alba2l alembic alias alliant altos86 ames aob apple applga arcturus atha attctc auvax.athabascau.ca axion banzai bdgltd berner bionet bjs bloom-beacon bnr-rsc brutus.cs.uiuc.edu caesar.cs.montana.edu captain cbmvax ccnysci cctb.wa.com cdin-1 cg-atla chinet chip chyde cica cimcor cit5 claris clmqt.marquette.mi.us cloud9 comhex cos coyote crdgw1 cs.utexas.edu csd4.csd.uwm.edu csd4.milw.wisc.edu csoftec ctisbv ctnews cu.warwick.ac.uk cui cveg dali.cs.montana.edu dciem decision decuac decwrl dell desint devon dhw68k dlb dplace dscatl dsinc dsndata dtscp1 dvinci dvlmarv eds1 elroy elsie eltek ernest essex.ac.uk ethz-inf ethz falcon fantasci fauern felix fpssun friday fulcrum gatech genrad gouldnl gpstwr grian gronk gsg gt5000 gtisqr gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com hardy haven hemuli.atk.vtt.fi holtec holtec.se hpda hsfmsh hsi htsa ibiza.cs.miami.edu icus.islp.ny.us ida.org igor imokay inco indetech indri infopro inmos inthap isaak iscuva isy iuvax ivucsb jarthur jetson jjmhome jolnet kl-cs koosh kullmar ladcgw lamc letni loft386 log-hb loria lxn marob marque massey matrox mcgp1 me megatek milhow1 mipos3 mips moscom mstar mti n3dmc n7kbt nanovx natinst nbires nc386 ncc ncis.tis.llnl.gov ncoast ncrats ncrcae ndsuvax netcom netsys nokia nwnexus nynashamn.telelogic.se obdient oha ohs onecom paris.ics.uci.edu parsely pcrat peregrine petro philmtl phoenix pilchuck polyslo psuhcx psuvax1 puck purdue pwa-b pyrdc quad1 radio.astro.utoronto.ca rancho rdahp resrch rochester rtech sactoh0 scifi sdsu seer shade shapetc shelby sics.se sigma simon.chi.il.us sirius sis slxsys sneaky solbase ssbell stl.stc.co.uk sumax sun.soe.clarkson.edu tank.uchicago.edu targon tarpit tcom.stc.co.uk tnl toro trux tut.cis.ohio-state.edu u-word uakari.primate.wisc.edu uccba uceng.uc.edu uci-ics ucqais uhnix1 uhnix2 ukma ulysses umigw.miami.edu usc utower utugw uunet uxc.cso.uiuc.edu uxc ve7apu vector voder wa3wbu wang whizz wuarchive wubios.wustl.edu wundt xanth xylogics yarra zardoz ziebmef zinn