Network Outage Element Watch

Looking at some of my study notes reminded me today, that not all network outages are man made. Elemental power is sometimes at work.

Air:
High Density winds and tornados 
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/WINDS/index.html


Earth:
Earth quake Seismic Monitor 
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Fire: 
Fire warnings 
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fire_wx/


Water:
Huricanne watch 
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/  

Tsunami Warning Center 
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/

Space:
Meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

http://www.spaceweather.com/ and http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/


An interesting site is downforeveryoneorjustme.com when having trouble with a url.

Internet Network Traffic Packet Archive

Some packets, I just wont see every day. The Internet Traffic Archive has 4 million-packet traces of LAN and WAN traffic, 30 days of wide-area TCP connections, Six months of Web client traces and more.

The traces are a very helpful review of network traffic that I do not normally see on a daily basis.

It has been interesting identifying and reading packets that are slightly irregular.

The Internet network traffic by ACM SIGCOMM is at http://ita.ee.lbl.gov/html/traces.html

Enjoy!