October 2016 - ripe-atlas - mailman.ripe.net

Error: Only anchors may be targeted.
by Mozafary Mohammad 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Hello I've got "Only anchors may be targeted." on HTTP measurement creation.Any body can advise what the problem is? Thanks

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Plan to Implement RIPE Atlas WiFi Measurements
by Robert Kisteleki 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

Dear colleagues, We wanted to update the community and let you know that we plan to start work on the proposed experiment with WiFi measurements in mid-2016. As we communicated in a recent RIPE Labs article, we will work with GÉANT as a test partner to learn more about the operational effects of introducing WiFi measurements to the RIPE Atlas system, in addition to the benefits we believe this could provide for the entire RIPE Atlas community. Please see the article for more details if you are interested: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-atlas-wifi-measure… We will continue to update you once we’ve begun work on this plan, and we welcome your comments in the meantime. Regards, Robert Kisteleki RIPE NCC

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RIPE Atlas Interface Hackathon, 21-22 May, Copenhagen
by Vesna Manojlovic 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Dear colleagues, Calling all front-end developers, UI designers, network operators and other enthusiastic coders! The next RIPE Atlas hackathon takes place 21-22 May in Copenhagen, the weekend before the RIPE 72 Meeting. We're looking for creative thinkers to help us develop new interfaces for RIPE Atlas. All source code developed during the hackathon will be publicly licensed and available on GitHub, and will be free for the entire community to use. -------------------- How to Apply -------------------- Interested? Learn more and apply online today! https://atlas.ripe.net/hackathon/Interface/?pk_campaign=hackathon&pk_kwd=li… *The application deadline is 23 March* Please note that we are unfortunately unable to provide travel or accommodation funding. We look forward to seeing you there! Regards, Vesna and the RIPE Atlas Team

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RIPE Atlas APIs
by Robert Kisteleki 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Dear colleagues, We've just published a RIPE Labs article about a reminder for the RIPE Atlas API version changes. You can read it here: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/ripe-atlas-api-changes Regards, Robert Kisteleki RIPE NCC

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Probe marked as offline, but it's online...
by Christian Schrötter 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Hello Atlas users! I've connected my probe to a new network environment, to test everything before the big migration starts. It came up again immediately and displayed it's new network details at the WebUI. For the first time there was an IPv6-ULA prefix visible. The router (OpenWrt 15.05) supports full IPv6 via tunnel, but it's not advertised to the probe's VLAN and blocked by firewall rules. Everything seems to work, good! I've switched it off/on for several times, went back to the old router/modem and powered it on again. After some hours I've checked the WebUI again: My probe is offline! :-( I've tested it again on the new router: Offline! Once again on the old setup: Offline! Untouched default router/modem from my ISP: Offline! Current LED status: (from 1-5; power to button) > on > off > slow blink > on > on SOS-DNS-history from Wireshark: (switch port mirrored to my analysis interface) > Standard query 0x0002 AAAA U.*************.sos.atlas.ripe.net > Standard query response 0x0002 AAAA 2001:67c:2e8:11::c100:1337 > Standard query 0x0003 A U.*************.sos.atlas.ripe.net > Standard query response 0x0003 A 193.0.19.55 The probe is online and communicates with many servers. Looks like the built-in tests are running fine. There is NTP, DNS, ICMP, UDP and HTTP traffic. But it's still offline at the WebUI. I've double and triple checked everything on my side. Any ideas what's going wrong? -- With kind regards, Christian Schrötter

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Probe pickup at meeting?
by Joe Provo 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Hey, Are any $SMALLNUM probes available for pickup tonight/tomorrow? I found I only have one "to be distributed" probe left, and in a couple weeks will be taking holiday in Columbia (in current coverage voids :-). Cheers! Joe -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / CotSG / Usenix / NANOG

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Actual measurement interval much larger than planned
by Wenqin SHAO 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Dear list, I encountered some cases where the actual time interval between two neighbouring measurements being much larger than the scheduled value. Have you witnessed similar cases? I appreciate explanations on underlying reasons. Here goes an example: from ripe.atlas.cousteau import AtlasResultsRequest filters = dict(msm_id=1010, probe_ids=[16981], start=1470055258, stop=1470056217) is_success, results = AtlasResultsRequest(**filters).create() if is_success: for mes in results: print mes.get('timestamp', -1) The above code requests some built-in ping measurements (240s interval) made by probe 16981 and prints their timestamps. See below for the execution result: 1470055259 1470055499 1470055978 1470056216 Four measurements are retrieved within the given time range. I noticed that time interval between the 2nd and the 3rd measurement is 479s much larger than the planned value 240s. How come? Many thanks for your attention. Best regards, wenqin

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Re: [atlas] ripe-atlas Digest, Vol 62, Issue 14
by Andre Heinrichs 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:00 PM, <ripe-atlas-request(a)ripe.net> wrote: > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:24:25 +0200 > From: Philip Homburg <philip.homburg(a)ripe.net> > To: ripe-atlas(a)ripe.net > Subject: Re: [atlas] probe offline - troubleshooting requested > Message-ID: <3af3a709-9198-06d7-19a1-ae367d03a58e(a)ripe.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > On 2016/10/18 7:46 , Andre Heinrichs wrote: >> Any ideas what I could try to get the probe reconnected? >> >> Just to be complete: Here are the last lines of the SOS history: >> 62.109.121.35 2016-10-18 05:43:27 A 3h 59m >> 62.109.121.35 2016-10-18 05:43:27 AAAA 3h 59m > > The best thing to try is to reflash the USB stick (i.e. connect the > probe without USB stick, wait for a out 10 minutes and insert the USB > stick). > > Unfortunately, corruption of the filesystem on the USB stick can result > in weird behavior, like your probe is showing. SOS works fine but it > doesn't connect. Just for the record: the probe works again after I did the USB fix Philip described. I'm guessing the status tab only showed the hint about Firewall trouble because that would have been another possible cause for the symptoms. Thanks, Andre

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New on RIPE Labs: Orange Blacklisting: A Case for Measuring Censorship
by Mirjam Kuehne 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, Please find a short a article on measuring censorship on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/orange-blacklisting-a-cas… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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probe offline - troubleshooting requested
by Andre Heinrichs 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Last night my probe (#29384) was declared offline after the daily Internet disconnection my FritzBox executes to keep the provider from disconnecting me after 24 hours online. According to the SOS history the probe gets DNS requests out but somehow fails to connect completely. I tried rebooting every network component i could locally get my hands on but that didn't seem to help much. The LEDs on the probe don't actually fit any of the descriptions from the FAQ: They are On, Off, fast(er) blink (at least if compared to shortly after booting (Network Test?), On, On. I'm guessing it means the network somehow managed to fail. Although I don't notice anything missing from what I did on the network this morning. Any ideas what I could try to get the probe reconnected? Just to be complete: Here are the last lines of the SOS history: 62.109.121.35 2016-10-18 05:43:27 A 3h 59m 62.109.121.35 2016-10-18 05:43:27 AAAA 3h 59m TIA, Andre, currently not in reach of the probe

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Shall we continue non-public measurements in RIPE Atlas?
by Mirjam Kuehne 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, "Non-public measurements" is a feature of RIPE Atlas that allows users to use the infrastructure to measure things while not sharing those results with the public. Is that still a useful feature? Should it exist in the future? For more details, see this new post on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/non-public-measurements-in-ripe-atlas Please also take the polls at the end of the article. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Temporary Reduction of Available History on RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat
by Romeo Zwart 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, Today, Tuesday, 18 October 2016, between 09:00 and 10:00 UTC, the back-end storage cluster for RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat will be switched to a backup environment. This is part of planned maintenance work. The backup facility has a more limited amount of storage space, which means that RIPEstat and RIPE Atlas, including specific applications like DNSMON and DomainMon, will not serve data older than one year. We expect this to have no impact on ongoing RIPE Atlas measurements, scheduling new measurements, or the retrieval of more recent data from RIPE Atlas, RIPEstat or DNSMON. We apologise for any inconvenience. Kind regards, Romeo Zwart

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Problems with f.root-servers.net in Russia?
by Marat Khalili 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Sorry for slight offtopic, but does anybody know what is up with Russian instance of F root server? I observe periods of very high packet loss since 11th of October. I used to measure my own internet connectivity pinging it, but seems like by internet works better than that of the root server. Here's a measurement with 50 Russian probes, 34 of them show "Unreachable" right now: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/6886549/#!probes -- -- With Best Regards, Marat Khalili

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Out of date system probe tags
by Chris Amin 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

Dear all, Some of you have noticed that certain system tags (see below) remained applied to probes when they should have been removed. This is because the process that adds and removes these tags was temporarily disabled following the service issues that we experienced earlier in the month. This process has now been re-enabled after verifying that it was not a cause of the service downtime, and these tags have been applied correctly. The affected tags were: * Flaky connection * Firewall problem suspected * DNS problem suspected * No flash drive * Readonly flash drive * Hardware problem suspected Kind regards, Chris Amin RIPE NCC

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Connect/disconnect timestamps on probe page disappeared
by Marat Khalili 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Connect/disconnect timestamps on a probe page like https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/26656/#!tab-network disappeared this morning; durations still shown. Probably some problem with server side scripts? -- -- With Best Regards, Marat Khalili

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firmware download test?
by Yang Yu 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Hi, I have 2 probes that are connected but shown as offline even after several power cycles. I performed USB stick troubleshooting procedures by removing the USB stick and saw NO-USB SOS message. But after inserting the USB stick there wasn't any new SOS messages. Plugged the USB stick to computer and saw corrupted file system. Formatted the stick and inserted it back, still no SOS messages. What kind of filesystem layout is expected on the stick? From what I read the probe should automatically partition/format the stick. Maybe the stick is bad. I do see a good amount of packet loss between the probe's network and the registration server. How robust is the firmware download process (e.g does it abort on TCP RST)? Is there any way to manually load the firmware? Thanks. Yang

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New on RIPE Labs: What Can You Do with One Million RIPE Atlas Credits?
by Mirjam Kuehne 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, Ever wondered what to do with all those RIPE Atlas credits you earned? Find out on RIPE Labs how you can best spend your credits to check your services' connectivity and troubleshoot potential issues. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/what-can-you-do-with-one-million-ripe-a… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Re: [atlas] ripe atlas probe v1 cat sylvester (Colin BT)
by Colin Johnston 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

smaller pic now to so hopefully auto approved :) Managed to raise over 2500 pounds for Byte Night NW (Action for Children) https://www.facebook.com/ByteNight <https://www.facebook.com/ByteNight> contact myself if want to donate Here is Sylvester on Bus to event, sleeping out and on Bus back home. yours Colin Johnston

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Service downtime
by Robert Kisteleki 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hello, We seem to experience a database backend problem, rendering the whole service unavailable. We're busy fixing it and investigating the cause. Ill report on progress as soon as I have more information. Regards, Robert

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ripe.atlas.net issues
by Max Mühlbronner 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

"Oops - this page experienced an error while loading." My atlas / My probe does not work, the checks are failing. (Since ~12 minutes) Please don't tell me that it's maintenance work again, without any announcement? ;) Max M.

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SSL error on OpenIPMap
by Anurag Bhatia 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello everyone. Is it just me or anyone else getting SSL error on OpenIPMap? I can see that SSL cert of atlas.ripe.net is valid but when we open OpenIP Map, it calls one specific map image from fastly on HTTP resulting in "mixed content" making Chrome to throw SSL error. This is the URL of that image:http://stamen-tiles-c.a.ssl.fastly.net/toner-lite/3/5/5.png It does seems to be available on https already and so probably someone at RIPE need to update URL to call https in URL and avoid the false positive it's giving. Thanks. - -- Anurag Bhatiaanuragbhatia.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Mailvelope v1.5.2 Comment: https://www.mailvelope.com wsFcBAEBCAAQBQJX7qbdCRDAbdUkJF5Y4gAAP7oP/R+c7QMQEIt7c0/fLnKx IrvoSxS0RlivGHQBcQY4DcQvXNU0SsBdjUTG3hOJP/OyCERG9Uar8xRFXKAB LHrUGPa9rGdxHtJFJYL0fgKc0o0aELBkaot3unJPBRwGtp5Acyfx3Yv9CUF+ fqxq27tRnRtXklqVfYw5aWC20CC4EHEme3vv0+QsdasJ0s1mi1zehI1c60yI RQqZ35MaB9flyMyxU1L2CaKHh0BnZs0ssSxGsr/s2cfqhfu5KPzagi/obsEs 6mhwtkTPD1Y/649QAzs2E3vpZ83tn8fkExU54hHznpBy4QmNIAx7pnlwtOrX 8ou7Rn1Yt7V5NiSHGkr31sPJfMfHXErZ6NAl/Z7uPcs9+ofAkAEBh5H7pINr BFwZzX6DsqNiq1Q+F9sU385D5144Y4YE/vDIDXYXhSgbHv9NeqIph7Ceitt9 Ap4wx7eOh/8ONLddUdqf4/M0m9ORsFc4fRAhFkLCzLdUlXpDqAGGgxSFIcg4 NiInbdyZCO1Ula7TQCPR0qtTDJQ75w93wj5STM2uZjlVd5K6QUB4bmz8S/QX oEMLOSmjcWybQH+dBSJ25VVynCu7sRkSUyhyE2wwrb2adDw8pS0QMG5cyjhZ DX+XP9KGoFi6xYFCQypXO+bkSsh84OBKrxo+fFfznFTYFkDZ6yae/ZKSfC/o urP4 =coGp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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