[02:37] Did anyone notice a latency spike just now? [12:37] http://imgur.com/ZO1DfrA [12:37] seems good for me [12:37] (time is UTC+1) [13:17] mercutio: still plenty of space in AfriNIC [13:18] and loose policies like it's 1998! you're only a mauritius or seychelles shelf company away from all the IPv4 you can type [13:19] lol [13:47] :-) [13:53] Are there robust exchanges in Africa? [14:22] ams-ix shut theirs down after two years [14:22] outside of south africa? not really. google has stuff in lagos and connectivity in nairobi. [14:23] djibouti has five submarine cables but an exchange only in name. [14:23] it was called DIX for awhile until the changed it to DjIX [14:30] Thank you [14:32] Does south Africa have solid infrastructure? [14:42] I haven't been there personally [14:42] but it is far more developed than most other places on the continent [14:43] Are you aware of a reputable VPS host there? [14:49] I am not, but a search of webhostingtalk or perhaps contacting oneprovider.com might be useful [14:54] Thank you [15:15] i think south africa is pretty decent for connectivity [15:16] slow speeds for a lot of users in the past, dunno if it's still like that [15:16] but i think it's generally pretty reliable [15:17] Thanks mercutio [20:15] *** Seji has quit IRC (Quit: No Ping reply in 180 seconds.) [20:21] Is there a more accurate way to measure round-trip time between hosts than ping? [20:25] *** Seji has joined #arpnetworks [20:27] you can look at the tcp headers [20:28] To remove remote host processing time? [20:31] and to get reading across multiple packets easily [20:31] it also picks up packet loss easily [20:32] i made a simple program to test in-band latency with ssh once too [20:44] *** Seji has quit IRC (Quit: No Ping reply in 240 seconds.) [20:45] Did you write it in C? [20:47] *** Seji has joined #arpnetworks [21:07] yeh [21:07] https://weallsee.net/cl [21:08] it justs current cursor position [21:08] and times how long that takes to get [21:12] *** Seji has quit IRC (Quit: No Ping reply in 180 seconds.) [21:14] Would it technically make sense to refer to round-trip time values as "latency"? I understand RTT to be an aggregate measure of latency [21:14] *** Seji has joined #arpnetworks [21:16] well just do median on it or such [21:16] median/min/max/mean [21:19] Would it be correct to use "Latency" to refer to it? [21:25] No. Latency is the time between initiation and the response. In the context of a "ping" it's half of RTT (ideally) [21:26] Though the term "latency" his highly contextual. eg network latency, response latency, etc [21:27] the half of rtt is usually called one way latency [21:28] and the latency can vary in either directional, normally latency is described as bidirectional latency these days. [21:28] usually people who give half rtt for latency are trying to sell low latency network links or such and have a lower number [21:29] What I gather is that latency can refer to either side of a request/response or both, however it's commonly used to refer to both, that is RTT [21:37] tl;dr "latency" as a word on its own is unspecific. [21:41] *** Seji has quit IRC (Quit: No Ping reply in 210 seconds.) [21:44] *** Seji has joined #arpnetworks [22:04] *** mnathani has joined #arpnetworks [22:04] @weather yyz [22:04] There is 1 weather alert in effect for your area! There is a Special Weather Statement. [22:04] Toronto-Pearson International, Ontario: Light Rain ☂ 55°F (13°C), Humidity: 94%, Wind: From the East at 18 MPH Gusting to 31 MPH -- For more details including the forecast and almanac, see http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=43.67722321,-79.63055420 or re-request this with: @weather -v yyz [22:21] It reached 42C here today, set new records and everything :( [22:21] I'm very jealous of your weather. [22:30] ouch [22:31] @weather akl [22:31] Auckland International, New Zealand: Partly Cloudy ☁ 55°F (13°C), Humidity: 88%, Wind: From the WSW at 9 MPH -- For more details including the forecast and almanac, see http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=-37.00805664,174.79167175 or re-request this with: @weather -v akl [22:31] i have the same hah [22:31] well less wet, and less wind. [22:31] That's what she said!!