Uirapuru
Examples of Pingbird commands
September 29, 1999
Tokyo — Manaus — Tokyo
Pingbirds are telerobotic birds that send ping commands to servers geographically located in the Amazon region (where the rainforest is located). The pingbirds sing the songs of real Amazonian birds according the rhythm of global network traffic. The ping command operates by sending a packet to a designated address and waiting for a response. It is used to monitor round-trip travel time and as such is a direct measurement of current Internet traffic. In the interactive telepresence installation "Uirapuru," greater Internet traffic results in the telerobotic birds singing more often.
The two lists below exemplify the trajectory of 64-byte ping packets sent by the pingbirds in Tokyo to the server in the Amazon region, and then returned by the server to the pingbirds. Time is indicated in milliseconds (ms).
If we compare the two lists we see great variation: the number of hops is different (18 and 15, respectively), the trajectory of the ping packets is not the same (one goes through Montreal, the other through Baltimore), and the round-trip travel time varies accordingly. All parameters change constantly, giving great variety to the pingbirds' behavior.
Tokyo — Manaus — Tokyo
1 t1-home (209.125.67.1) 3.581 ms 9.475 ms 3.402 ms 2 10.252.2.185 (10.252.2.185) 7.807 ms 32.992 ms 39.834 ms 3 10.252.80.1 (10.252.80.1) 27.207 ms 55.125 ms 6.501 ms 4 c1-pos5-0.nwrknj1.home.net (24.7.72.117) 47.310 ms 7.527 ms 7.174 ms 5 c1-pos4-2.cmdnnj1.home.net (24.7.68.58) 10.995 ms 10.002 ms 19.784 ms 6 bb1-pos1-0-0.nap-nj.nap.home.net (24.7.72.114) 10.813 ms 15.506 ms 38.648 ms 7 gin-nyy-bbl.teleglobe.net (192.157.69.33) 54.929 ms 43.523 ms 37.343 ms 8 if-2-1-0.bb4.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.223.5) 34.083 ms 36.882 ms 57.894 ms 9 if-6-0.core1.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.222.5) 19.825 ms 20.699 ms 36.859 ms 10 if-1-1.core1.Montreal.Teleglobe.net (207.45.223.61) 42.819 ms 37.321 ms 35.570 ms 11 if-3-0-0.bb1.Laurentides.Teleglobe.net (207.45.222.201) 81.428 ms 42.276 ms 37.978 ms 12 ebt-P4-0-0-core02.rjo.embratel.net.br (200.255.197.101) 352.580 ms 370.783 ms 348.115 ms 13 ebt-P2-0-gsr01.rjo.embratel.net.br (200.255.197.102) 343.019 ms 341.727 ms 342.469 ms 14 ebt-A3-0-1-gsr01.spo.embratel.net.br (200.230.2.42) 558.671 ms 572.045 ms 573.230 ms 15 ebt-P12-0-0-core02.spo.embratel.net.br (200.230.0.101) 570.329 ms 554.106 ms 556.675 ms 16 ebt-F9-0-0-dist02.spo.embratel.net.br (200.230.0.35) 561.724 ms 561.533 ms * 17 ebt-S9-0-dist01.mns.embratel.net.br (200.230.220.61) 591.568 ms 581.913 ms 588.017 ms 18 serv5.netium.com.br (200.241.125.15) 605.438 ms 604.728 ms 601.215 ms
Tokyo — Manaus — Tokyo
1 202.229.148.249 8 msec 8 msec 2 203.138.72.44 12 msec 12 msec 12 msec 3 f0-kanda-gw2.sphere.ad.jp (202.239.113.131) 8 msec 12 msec 12 msec 4 Hssi1-0-501.sea1.idc.ad.jp (158.205.227.17) 140 msec 144 msec 140 msec 5 Hssi3-1-0.GW1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (137.39.136.73) 148 msec 148 msec 148 msec 6 103.ATM3-0.XR2.SEA1.ALTER.NET (146.188.200.38) 144 msec 144 msec 148 msec 7 294.ATM2-0.TR2.SEA1.ALTER.NET (146.188.200.122) 148 msec 148 msec 148 msec 8 110.ATM7-0.TR2.EWR1.ALTER.NET (146.188.137.77) 292 msec 220 msec 200 msec9 196.ATM7-0.XR2.EWR1.ALTER.NET (146.188.176.85) 200 msec 204 msec 200 msec 10 192.ATM9-0-0.GW3.EWR1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.169) 192 msec 204 msec 196 msec 11 Serial1-1-1.GW1.BLM1.ALTER.NET (157.130.12.70) 200 msec 200 msec 204 msec 12 198.3.149.14 716 msec 720 msec 716 msec 13 ebt-F1-0-0-dist02.spo.embratel.net.br (200.230.0.67) 720 msec 716 msec 720 msec 14 ebt-S10-0-dist01.mns.embratel.net.br (200.230.220.65) 756 msec 752 msec 752 msec 15 serv5.netium.com.br (200.241.125.15) 764 msec 764 msec 760 msec