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Probe reported as disconnected but is actually online
by Boris Fersing 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hi there, Today I had a power failure at home and since then, my probe's state is "disconnected", but I checked the network traffic and it looks like the probe is actually able to reach the internet and is doing some DNS requests I don't know about: U431.M<PROBES MAC>.sos.atlas.ripe.net U980.M<PROBES MAC>.sos.atlas.ripe.net U116.M<PROBES MAC>.sos.atlas.ripe.net Do you know what those SOS requests mean? The SOS history on the atlas.ripe.net page doesn't show any useful message. The Status (beta) tab shows the following message: ===== Firewall Problems Suspected What does this mean? Probes connect to the controlling infrastructure using SSH (via port 443). If our system detects that the probe is successfully engaged in other kinds of activities, but these SSH connections fail, then it's highly likely that these connections are somehow blocked or disturbed. This could be because there's a firewall blocking these connections. Another reason could be that there is a (transparent) proxy in the way that affects port 443 (usually HTTPS) connections, which means the probe and its controller cannot mutually authenticate each other (because the proxy is interfering). How can I fix this? Check whether you have a firewall or an aggressive NAT appliance preventing such connections. Also check whether there's a transparent proxy on the path. Alternatively, you can try plugging in the probe on a different network to confirm whether a firewall / proxy is really causing the problem. ===== But since I don't know which host the probe is trying to connect to, I can't really test it and tcpdump doesn't show any attempt to a port 443. Thanks Boris

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atlas-stream SSL problem
by Massimo Candela 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hi all, We are currently experiencing an issue with the load balancer of the streaming service over SSL. We are working on it. The service on http on port 80 is not affected. The Atlas CLI and Cousteau are not affected too. Sorry for the inconvenience. It will be fixed soon. Best regards, Massimo Candela

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New analysis of version 3 probes on RIPE Labs
by Philip Homburg 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Hi, As promised, we’ve continued to look into the issue that some people are having with the version 3 probes and have found that actual hardware failures for version 3 probes are in fact relatively rare compared to filesystem corruption. We’ve published a new article on RIPE Labs with the complete analysis: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/further-analysis-of-ripe-atlas… We’ll continue looking into these issues, so stay tuned for future articles. Philip Homburg RIPE NCC

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Re: [atlas] Troubleshooting USB stick issues - reaching out
by Christophe Van Reeth 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi, It's not just the Sandisk sticks that go into permanent readonly mode. The Verbatim have the same problem. Mine went into readonly mode after only 10.5 months of service. Kind regards, Christophe Van Reeth > Dear colleagues, > > recently, some of the third version of RIPE Atlas probes have had an > issue with their USB sticks. > > We're still investigating what may be causing this issue, > and in the meantime we have a possible solution, outlined in this RIPE > Labs article (and below in the email) > https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/troubleshooting-ripe-atlas-pro… > > These steps might not be a surprise to the users on this list, > but on the 4th of July we reached out to almost 5000 hosts of > "abandoned" probes, and we see immediate positive results! > > As you can see from some screenshots I quickly made, > number of active probes have increased - from 8883 on 1st July, > to 9323 this morning. Allowing for normal fluctuations, > this is still a considerable increase -- and we are grateful! > > Thank you for all the effort that you put into keeping the > RIPE Atlas network strong by keeping your probes connected. > > Kind regards, > Vesna (and the RIPE Atlas team) > > === > > Steps to power-cycle probe without USB stick: > > 1. Unplug the probe from its power source > 2. Remove the USB stick from the probe > 3. Plug in the probe WITHOUT the USB stick > 4. Wait for ten minutes > 5. Insert the USB stick > > After an hour, check SOS-messages & "Status" tab > > Note: Only on a network with working DHCP. > If you have configured probe to use static IP, > this setting would be lost if trying the steps. > > If this didn't help, try using a new, brand-name USB stick that is at > least 4GB in size (it does not need any preparation but its contents > will be erased so make sure it does not store anything crucial) > > If the problem is still there, please contact us at atlas(a)ripe.net >

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Fwd: Probe 2317 is down (home fibre)
by Colin Johnston 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

seems fine to me ? dont have connectivity to ripe site though from BT network range in uk what is telia upto ? Colins-iMac:~ colinj$ traceroute www.ripe.net traceroute to www.ripe.net (193.0.6.139), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 bthomehub (192.168.1.254) 1.913 ms 1.078 ms 1.078 ms 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 31.55.185.196 (31.55.185.196) 16.187 ms 15.477 ms 15.443 ms 5 195.99.127.142 (195.99.127.142) 15.557 ms 195.99.127.130 (195.99.127.130) 16.274 ms 195.99.127.128 (195.99.127.128) 16.602 ms 6 vhsaccess2-pos1-0.faraday.fixed.bt.net (195.99.127.9) 16.979 ms 16.611 ms 195.99.127.25 (195.99.127.25) 17.097 ms 7 166-49-211-240.eu.bt.net (166.49.211.240) 16.413 ms 166-49-211-236.eu.bt.net (166.49.211.236) 16.225 ms 166-49-211-238.eu.bt.net (166.49.211.238) 15.821 ms 8 213.248.82.249 (213.248.82.249) 16.880 ms 15.785 ms 15.470 ms 9 ldn-bb2-link.telia.net (62.115.137.194) 16.633 ms 213.248.82.249 (213.248.82.249) 15.631 ms 15.400 ms 10 ldn-bb3-link.telia.net (80.91.248.90) 15.776 ms ldn-bb2-link.telia.net (213.155.136.62) 16.815 ms adm-bb4-link.telia.net (62.115.142.221) 22.936 ms 11 adm-b2-link.telia.net (62.115.141.51) 25.759 ms adm-b2-link.telia.net (80.91.253.182) 22.263 ms adm-b2-link.telia.net (62.115.141.17) 21.979 ms 12 adm-b2-link.telia.net (80.91.253.182) 22.481 ms adm-b2-link.telia.net (62.115.141.9) 22.344 ms adm-b2-link.telia.net (62.115.141.63) 27.606 ms Colin > Begin forwarded message: > > From: RIPE Atlas (no reply) <no-reply(a)ripe.net> > Subject: Probe 2317 is down (home fibre) > Date: 21 June 2015 20:30:07 BST > To: colinj(a)mx5.org.uk > > Dear Dear colin johnston, > > Your probe 2317 has been disconnected since 2015-06-21 18:49:16 UTC. > > This is an automatically generated email from RIPE Atlas. It was sent to you because you asked to be notified if your probe becomes disconnected for more than 30 minutes. > > If you want to change this, or disable this notification altogether, please go to https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/2317/, and click the "edit" button under "Notifications". > > Kind regards, > > RIPE Atlas Team > atlas(a)ripe.net

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Identifying widespread outages using atlas?
by Rafal.Jankowski＠thomsonreuters.com 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi I'm wondering if there is any good statistic tool that helps identyfing any widespread Internet outages using ripe atlas probes such as ISP issues (like todays http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36844712), cable cuts, etc. Normally I select probe and look into public measurements but it does not seem to be very effective. ________________________________ This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient and contains information that may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments. Certain required legal entity disclosures can be accessed on our website.<http://site.thomsonreuters.com/site/disclosures/>

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Stop time not retained when creating new measurement
by Bill Fenner 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hi, I created a new measurement this morning, https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/4467029/ . Its status says: Timing 2016-07-16 07:35 No stop time defined but I filled in the stop time when I created the measurement via the web page; I saved the command that it gave me to invoke the API and it includes: ... "is_oneoff": false, "bill_to": "fenner(a)fenron.com", "stop_time": 1469361631 } a) this feels like a bug. Is it a bug? b) can I add the stop time post-facto, or should I remember to go back and click "stop"? Thanks, Bill

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start one-off from probe overview page
by Job Snijders 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hi all, UI feature requests: It would be cool if there is a button to start a one-off measurement from a certain probe's overview pages. If I am at https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/25606/ - would be nice if I can immediately jump into a one-off, rather then copy-pasting the probe's ID and creating a new one-off UDM. Kind regards, Job

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Error creating one-off ping measurement
by Jared Mauch 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

We are attempting to test some things and I’m getting this error. "A one-off measurement cannot have the interval field set” It seems to be a problem if this field is even blank, anyone else experience this? - Jared

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Re: [atlas] Is the Atlas probe hackable?
by fuller＠beif.de 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

related to? http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2016-March/084946.html

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Probe down
by Виталий Туровец 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

Hello there! I've got a probe #20190 (https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/20190/) and it shows disconnected status it Atlas Web UI. I've tried to reboot the probe, it gets the IP address from my router via DHCP and i can ping it, the probe opens TCP connection to 193.0.19.25:443 and that's it. The question: how do i make it connect to Atlas again? -- ~~~ WBR, Vitalii Turovets Software Engineer VITU-RIPE

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Result streams not working
by Florencia Alvarez Etcheverry 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hello, I started working with RIPE Atlas last week, when I made a script to create a one-off ping measurement between two specific probes (which I ping to check if they were working). I used Cousteau API, by default I sent 3 packets and I had 5 seconds of timeout. I got the results one time and then it stopped working. I changed the timeout to 3 or 4 minutes and while waiting for the callback function to execute I checked on the webpage and I can see the results for every measure I launched. So I see the results on the page but they don't get to the stream and the callback function is never called. I also saw the status changed from "ongoing" to "stopped" several minutes after I've seen the results; which leads me to another question, when a measurement stops?, why if I already have the results of a ping (that is the only thing I've launched) it's still running? I tried with Cousteau and also directly with socketIO but it has the same behavior. When I took off the parameters "packets=1,interval=60" of the request (leaving default values), I got the result with Cousteau API, but not with the socket directly. When I run it again it didn't work, so it looks like it works one of 20 times. Is there something I could do or am I doing something wrong? Thank you, Florencia. Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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Troubleshooting USB stick issues - reaching out
by Vesna Manojlovic 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Dear colleagues, recently, some of the third version of RIPE Atlas probes have had an issue with their USB sticks. We're still investigating what may be causing this issue, and in the meantime we have a possible solution, outlined in this RIPE Labs article (and below in the email) https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/troubleshooting-ripe-atlas-pro… These steps might not be a surprise to the users on this list, but on the 4th of July we reached out to almost 5000 hosts of "abandoned" probes, and we see immediate positive results! As you can see from some screenshots I quickly made, number of active probes have increased - from 8883 on 1st July, to 9323 this morning. Allowing for normal fluctuations, this is still a considerable increase -- and we are grateful! Thank you for all the effort that you put into keeping the RIPE Atlas network strong by keeping your probes connected. Kind regards, Vesna (and the RIPE Atlas team) === Steps to power-cycle probe without USB stick: 1. Unplug the probe from its power source 2. Remove the USB stick from the probe 3. Plug in the probe WITHOUT the USB stick 4. Wait for ten minutes 5. Insert the USB stick After an hour, check SOS-messages & "Status" tab Note: Only on a network with working DHCP. If you have configured probe to use static IP, this setting would be lost if trying the steps. If this didn't help, try using a new, brand-name USB stick that is at least 4GB in size (it does not need any preparation but its contents will be erased so make sure it does not store anything crucial) If the problem is still there, please contact us at atlas(a)ripe.net

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sometimes no RTT?
by Antranig Vartanian 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Hi all! I'm new to RIPE Atlas, and right now using it for educational purposes :)) lately I've seen that some of my traceroute measurements do not have RTT. although it's not completely ignored by the hop (I get the data like from, size, ttl), but only rtt is missing :)) any idea how, why and when does this happen? :) for a live example, check Measurement #4458653. 48th probe's 11th hop's 1st query (counting from zero, btw) does not have rtt :) thanks in advance! side question: is there an (un)official IRC channel? :) -- Antranig Vartanian | PGP Key ID : 0xDAB81456 https://antranigv.am | https://cert.am (* do one thing and do it well *)

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development server?
by Ollivier Robert 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Hello, I've been hosting a probe for quite sometimes and now that APIv2 is out, I've writing a Go library to access it. Is there a development server I could hit instead of the regular one in order to clutter the DB with temporary/trash measurements? Thanks. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto(a)keltia.net In memoriam to Ondine, our 2nd child: http://ondine.keltia.net/

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Is the Atlas probe hackable?
by Hank Nussbacher 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

I received a report from one of our security monitoring systems about one of our probes (#17846) - https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/17846/ which appears to be infected with Tinba: > Security incident #1 - Tinba infection > Involved internal Hosts: > atlas-probe.cc.biu.ac.il 132.70.248.150 spotted since > 2016-06-30 > 23:58:54 till 2016-07-01 05:01:20 > Malicious activities found: > Tinba infection > related indication of compromise: > Communication with CnC > 192.112.36.4 > 192.203.230.10 > 192.228.79.201 > 192.33.4.12 > 192.36.148.17 > 193.0.14.129 > 198.41.0.4 > 198.97.190.53 > 199.7.83.42 > 199.7.91.13 > 202.12.27.33 Should we be worried? Thanks, Hank

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Is there something up with atlas.ripe.net at the moment ?
by Steve Pointer 05 Jul '16

05 Jul '16

Hi I am trying to add a couple of new measurements, however it has been "...calculating" for about an hour now. Is there a known issue? Many Thanks Steve P -- Steve Pointer spointer(a)humdai.net

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SSL Measurement shows time errors for Certs
by Paul van der Zwan 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

I have just created an SSL measurement with 20 probes and they all show the following error for the cert validity dates: Invalid date UTC . AFAIK the cert contains valid dates.. Any idea ? Thanks, Paul Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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RIPE NCC Webinars - new dates
by Vesna Manojlovic 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Dear colleagues, If you are interested in a RIPE Atlas webinar: - new date for summer is announced: 16.8. (below) - description & additional material is available here: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online/webinars/advanced-ripe-a… You can register on-line if you are an LIR; otherwise, please contact <training(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Vesna -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ncc-announce] [training] RIPE NCC Webinars - new dates Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the launch of new dates for our Webinars. The RIPE NCC Webinars are live and take only one hour. You can interact with our trainers without leaving your desk. We focus on the topics and issues most important for LIRs. Register now at https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online/webinars Participation is limited to 20 people, so don't hesitate if you want to take part! If you have questions, please email <training(a)ripe.net>. We look forward to seeing you online. Kind regards, RIPE NCC Training Service

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More than 200 RIPE Atlas anchors now online
by Michela Galante 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Dear colleagues, Thanks to thirteen new RIPE Atlas anchors being activated over the last two months, we have now reached an important milestone: more than 200 anchors online! Learn more about what anchor measurements can do for you: https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/about/ We have also started decommissioning anchors with older hardware and working with hosts to replace them with updated hardware. We'd like to thank Nick Hilliard for helping us test our decommissioning procedure and becoming the first anchor host to update to the new hardware for as2128, hosted by INEX in Dublin, Ireland. Since our last announcement, the following anchors have become active: - cz-brq-as24971, hosted by Master Internet s.ro.o in Brno, Czech Republic - nl-ams-as1200, hosted by AMS-IX B.V. in Amsterdam, Netherlands - ca-wtl-as4508, hosted by NeuStyle Corporation in Waterloo, Canada - ie-ork-as2128, second anchor for INEX, hosted in Cork, Ireland - lv-rix-as52048, hosted by DATACLUB S.A. in Riga, Latvia - dk-taa-as51468, hosted by One.com in Tastrup, Denmark - ie-dub-as2128, hosted by INEX in Dublin, Ireland (replaces older hardware) - us-rno-as3851, hosted by University of Nevada in Reno, United States - nl-dft-as31019, hosted by Meanie in Delft, Netherlands - ru-mot-as13238, hosted by Yandex LLC in Mytishchi, Russia - de-bwe-as680, hosted by TU Braunschweig, Gauss-IT-Zentrum in Braunschweig, Germany - nl-ams-as35733, hosted by EURid VZW in Amsterdam, Netherlands - us-abn-as51468, hosted by One.com in Ashburn, United States - kh-pnh-as7712, hosted by Sabay Digital Coperation (sponsored by APNIC) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia The map of all anchor locations is available at: https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/map/ You can access the anchoring measurements for all anchors at: https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/list/ And here are all of the anchor hosts: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!tab-anchor-sponsors We are still accepting new applications from organisations interested in hosting a RIPE Atlas anchor, and are particularly interested in deploying anchors in the Middle East, Western Asia, Latin America and Africa in order to add more geographical diversity to the measurement data. To apply for your own RIPE Atlas anchor, please visit: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/ It’s also possible to sponsor an anchor for organisations that want to host one but don’t have the necessary funding. To learn more about sponsoring an anchor, please contact us at atlas(a)ripe.net Regards, Michela Galante Measurements Community Building RIPE NCC

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written off Probe #20578
by FREDDY BULOW 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

hello, is it gonna be my probe on, I just received the probe. because I have this message on the interface of the count : Note: this probe is Most Likely not operational, and hast Such it has-been written off as of 2015-05-27 1:02 UTC. The Most Likely reason for this is que le host couldn't be contacted. Thank you for your help. Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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accounting glitch for probe 15105
by Kasper Pedersen 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Tonight Freddy Bulow's post made me take a look at 15105. I was certain it would be up, but that was only halfway what I found. It was listed as being down since June 16th, and the uptime graph was showing an 8-day hole. It was, however, showing traffic on the graph, and locally I was also seeing normal probe traffic. Here's a pcap: https://highlyexperimental.kitsune.dk/201606242131.pcap At packet 765 I powercycled the probe, it came back up, and now showed 0 minutes up. That was expected, but what also happened was that the uptime graph filled in to no longer show downtime, the log entry showing the probe going down on the 16th disappeared (yes, really), and a new one showed it going down on the 24th with a few seconds downtime. The only thing left is the 8-day hole in the credit log, that did not change. /Kasper Pedersen Beware of corner cases. They tend to have sharp corners. Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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How to get a new USB stick ?
by Élodie de FranceServ Hébergement 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hello, The SanDisk USB (4GB) provided with the RIPE Atlas probe don’t work anymore since more 5 days and the connection logs say “NO USB”. To check the USB stick, I plugged a personal one and since this time the probe is working again. I have this probe number 18685 since 2015-03-05. I would like know if the team could send me a new USB stick to replace the old one please or if I need to buy a new one myself ? Best regards, Élodie

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Probe #16917 shows disconnected
by Jacques Lav!gnotte. 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

Hi RIPE-Atlas-Probe-16917 gets the Adresse IP : 192.168.1.13 on the DHCP of the ADSL Modem but RipeAtlas site says probe is disconnected. I restarted it several times, checked the cable to the witch and replaced the power supply. No way : The 'globe' LED is permanently blinking. What else should I check ? Thanks, Jacques -- GnuPg : C8F5B1E3 WeUsePGP Because privacy matters http://weusepgp.info/

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Is there a widget to embed domainMON in monitoring
by Arsen STASIC 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

Hi, I find domainMON really useful! Can I also load it as a widget and embed it in my monitoring? I wasn't able to find this information [1] [2] [3]. [1] https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-atlas-domainmon-is… [2] https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/domainmon/ [3] https://atlas.ripe.net/dnsmon/doc/ui cheers, -arsen

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Results from RIPE Atlas Interface Hackathon
by Vesna Manojlovic 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Dear colleagues, few weeks ago, we have held third RIPE Atlas hackahton. It was as good as ever: much coding, very geeky, such fun! Please find the stories & photos, links to all the software & interfaces, videos & presentations in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-interface-hackathon-results?… Have a good weekend, Vesna

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Re: [atlas] ripe-atlas Digest, Vol 58, Issue 5
by Mutungi Joel 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

How do i access the issue on Measuring global SCTP support status (Marat Khalili) On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:00 PM, <ripe-atlas-request(a)ripe.net> wrote: > Send ripe-atlas mailing list submissions to > ripe-atlas(a)ripe.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ripe-atlas-request(a)ripe.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ripe-atlas-owner(a)ripe.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ripe-atlas digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Measuring global SCTP support status (Marat Khalili) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:07:11 +0300 > From: Marat Khalili <mkh(a)rqc.ru> > To: ripe-atlas(a)ripe.net > Subject: [atlas] Measuring global SCTP support status > Message-ID: <5760F08F.5040009(a)rqc.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Dear all, > > I wonder if anyone tried to measure SCTP > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol> > connectivity from ATLAS probes to the internet and across the internet? > The question is quite similar to one about IPv6, but I could find no > mention of it on ATLAS site. > > -- > > With Best Regards, > Marat Khalili > >

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Measuring global SCTP support status
by Marat Khalili 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

Dear all, I wonder if anyone tried to measure SCTP <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol> connectivity from ATLAS probes to the internet and across the internet? The question is quite similar to one about IPv6, but I could find no mention of it on ATLAS site. -- With Best Regards, Marat Khalili

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Rasperry PI to Atlas Probe
by Ripe Blue Networks 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Dear RIPE, I have an old raspberry PI that I don't use. Have you an Image or something similar to use the raspberry as RIPE Atlas Probe for example? Kind regards, Marius Grün [cid:image002.png@01D1BBEF.B7CA2070]blue networks GmbH & Co KG Marius Grün Internet: www.blue-networks.de<http://www.blue-networks.de/> E-Mail: gruen(a)blue-networks.de<mailto:gruen@blue-networks.de> Die Weidenbach 6 63674 Altenstadt Tel.: 06047/9877-10 company domiciled in Altenstadt HRA Friedberg Hessen 3805 tax ID-no: DE226 535 686 CEO: Peer Kohlstetter

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Unknown probe ID for v2 probe
by Stefan Jakob 08 Jun '16

08 Jun '16

Dear RIPE Atlas Probe Team, Today I wanted to register my probe, but I can not figure out the probe ID. This probe is a v2 probe with MAC 00:20:4A:E0:21:2C The Probe is connected and should be visible behind: 130.180.54.46 (sbh12.dy.n-jakob.eu) My DHCP isn't showing the probe ID as name. Just shows * or empty hostname. Inside my RFC1918 address space it has the IP 192.168.2.101 and is reachable via ICMP at least. Do you guys see the probe connected to your infrastructure? Can you provide the ID, so that I can finish the registration? Rgds, Stefan Jakob

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atlas.ripe.net problems (500 server error)
by Max Mühlbronner 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

Hi, just noticed it because our check is failing. Also login does not work. ("Oops - this page experienced an error while loading.") Outage or Maintenance work? Best Regards Max R. M.

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Hackathon code & presentations?
by Hank Nussbacher 28 May '16

28 May '16

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-atlas-interface-ha… Any code or presentations to share? Is the code available on Github yet? Thanks, Hank

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Update on problem with probes’ USB sticks
by Andreas Strikos 25 May '16

25 May '16

Hi all, We want to let you know that we have seen the active conversations about the USB sticks and the problems they’re causing for some RIPE Atlas probes. We are aware of these issues, and are taking steps to ensure this doesn’t become a real problem for the RIPE Atlas system. We’ve just published a RIPE Labs article that explains the preliminary analysis of our logs we’ve begun to investigate this issue. In the coming weeks, we will make sure we analyse all the logs we have in order to try to find a possible solution. We will keep you posted with any updates we have through this article. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/a-visual-impression-of-probe-l… We apologise for the inconvenience this is causing for some of our users. Thank you for continuing to be a part of RIPE Atlas. Regards, Andreas Strikos (on behalf of the RIPE Atlas team)

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v4 versus v6 -- who connects faster?
by Bajpai, Vaibhav 24 May '16

24 May '16

Hello, -- sorry for cross-posting Here [a] is a toy v6 service I came up with during the RIPE Atlas hackathon over this weekend. Thought I share this along: [a] http://goo.gl/hbzbwD You enter a dual-stacked website (ALEXA top 10K) and it shows you the difference in TCP connect times over v4 and v6 as seen by all dual-stacked RIPE Atlas probes (~1.3K probes). You can also filter the visualisation from a specific origin-AS. This additional filter can be useful to view performance towards a website from a specific origin-AS (say DTAG). Disclaimer: This is an outcome of a 1.5d long hackathon project. As such, the codebase is possibly inundated with bugs. Please don’t see it as a production service :-) Best, Vaibhav =================================== Vaibhav Bajpai www.vaibhavbajpai.com Room 91, Research I School of Engineering and Sciences Jacobs University Bremen, Germany ===================================

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USB drive more harmful than helpful?
by Michael Ionescu 24 May '16

24 May '16

>From both my own (short term) experience and from what's being written on this list, I'm getting the impression that the USB drive may be costing more than it's worth. I have in only about 3 months experienced multiple probe issues due to USB drives and there have been multiple threads on this list which suggest that I am far from alone. I will go so far as to suspect that a substantial number of disconnected and abandoned probes have similar issues, but the hosters may be unwilling or unable to spend the necessary time to investigate and resolve them. If the main reason for the drive is to cache data during unavailability of the command and control center, this may not be worth the effort. I would suggest making the drive optional. That may mean fewer data points from and/or fewer UDMs possible on those probes without a functioning drive. But it may also mean a couple thousand probes more connected and therefore available for measurements at all. I'm not saying that probes should not ask for their drives to be fixed/replaced, but it should not be a requirement for the probe to run. One might give an incentive to hosters to run their probes with functioning drives by giving less credits for connected probes without a drive. Any thoughts? Michael -- Sent from a mobile. Please excuse my brevity. // M: +49-163-6866568

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New on RIPE Labs: New RIPE Atlas APIs and User Manuals
by Mirjam Kühne 23 May '16

23 May '16

Dear colleagues, We've updated the RIPE Atlas APIs - and there's a comprehensive new manual to explain how to use them. As a result, the current (version 1) APIs are still available for now, but will be deprecated by the end of the year. Please find more information on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/new-ripe-atlas-apis?pk_… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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Re: [atlas] USB drive more harmful than helpful?
by Michael Ionescu 22 May '16

22 May '16

It was powered through the dedicated wall plug included with the probe. On May 22, 2016 12:03:39 AM GMT+02:00, Phillip Remaker <remaker(a)gmail.com> wrote: >How was the drive powered? Dedicated supply, or a port on a router? > >On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Michael Ionescu <mhi(a)ionescu.de> >wrote: > >> On May 20, 2016 9:08:08 PM GMT+02:00, Phillip Remaker ><remaker(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >I don't suppose RIPE buys enough USB sticks to get to talk to >engineers >> >at SanDISK? >> >> I just had a Verbatim drive originally supplied with the probe go >> read-only, so I would say RIPE is not procuring only SanDISK.

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Re: [atlas] USB drive more harmful than helpful?
by Michael Ionescu 21 May '16

21 May '16

On May 20, 2016 3:58:06 PM GMT+02:00, Philip Homburg <philip.homburg(a)ripe.net> wrote: >No, the probe actually runs from the USB stick. The internal 4MB flash >is just enough to initialize the USB stick in a secure way. And even >that is already tricky. Could you perhaps write some statistical data regarding drive usage to a cleartext partition that could be evaluated by the hoster once the probe is in limbo? --

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Re: [atlas] USB drive issues
by Geert Jan de Groot 21 May '16

21 May '16

At the first hint of trouble, it may actually have been premature, I swapped the USB drive on my probe with a brandname replacement. Note that there is a lot of poor quality stuff, especially in "giveaway" drives, and the fact that the disc is encrypted of course does not help heuristics in the USB drive controller to lengthen the drive life. The replacement was painless: power down, insert blank disk, powerup, did the dishes, when I was done the probe was done initializing and everything was working fine. I've added "replaced-broken-sandisk-usb-stick" to the probe. Perhaps this is a useful heuristic to monitor how prevalent the problem really is. Geert Jan

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Re: [atlas] Probe is down but does send DNS according tot SOS history
by gboonie 21 May '16

21 May '16

No. Everything seemed normal except that it was down. All tags like "IPv4 works" etc. were there. The only thing was that the status was down. So I pulled the power, pulled USB, replaced the power. Went to brush my teeth and came back to replace USB and went to bed around 23:30 (21:30UTC) A few hours (!) later the probe came back to live. The power for the probe comes from the modem. That might be a possible cause, I'm thinking. Could the developers please see if the probe can indicate power shortage? Could it get some recovering mechanism built in? Op 21-5-2016 om 01:14 schreef Phillip Remaker: > Does it have the "Hardware Problem Suspected" tag? It may have a > failing USB sick and can only get up far enough to send SOS messages. > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:13 PM, gboonie <gboonie(a)gmail.com > <mailto:gboonie@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > How can it be that the status of a probe is down while I see > current DNS requests in the SOS list without any remarks in the > 'info' column? Even the power-up time is increasing. > > If the probe can send DNS requests, why does it not have some > mechanism to recover? Seem not too hard to make it reboot if it's > status is down. > > Thanks, > Dave > > > > >

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Re: [atlas] USB drive more harmful than helpful?
by Joe Provo 20 May '16

20 May '16

Fwiw, I always power directly from an outlet, never tributary on the USB. I've yet to have such fails, so my anecdata aligns with the underpower theory. On May 20, 2016 15:08, "Phillip Remaker" <remaker(a)gmail.com> wrote: So I have a few theories. I have now had 3 different USB sticks fail on me: Two Sandisk 4GB SDCZ33 and one cheap generic 8GB replacement. The power draw of the TP-Link system + USB is probably more than the opportunistic USB ports they get plugged in to. An underpowered probe runs great MOST of the time, but a flash bit write is probably the highest power strain and Flash can get really unhappy with power interrupts, based on this SSD research: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast13/fast13-final80.pdf I usually use a 500mA or 800mA supply, or tap a nearby router USB port in that range. I suspect the system may demand 1200mA or more. When most flash sticks get errored out enough, they permanently fail into a read only mode, or become fully unreadable. Read-only mode can be reset on some models, but it is not recommended by the vendor. At least one of the failed SANdisk units I had was stuck in a read-only mode. Also, probes may be subjected to ungraceful power down situations, depending on where they are stationed. That can also be a flash drive killer. I don't think we are hitting the write limits of the sticks. I suspect the units are often in underpowered or ungraceful pwoer-down situations, or the USB flash itself is not responding gracefully to poweroff situations. I don't suppose RIPE buys enough USB sticks to get to talk to engineers at SanDISK? I know the newer Raspberry Pi will report when it is in an underpowered situation. Can the TP-Link detect and warn when underpowered? What is the minimum power recommended for TP-Link + USB? Also, are there any USB sticks that have lower power needs and are more robust in low power IoT situations? Is anyone trying to post-mortem the failed sticks? On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Gert Doering <gert(a)space.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:10:47PM +0200, Philip Homburg wrote: > > We have no clear idea why they fail. It seems that time to failure is > > highly variable. > > Can you correlate tests-until-failure or data-written-until-failure? > > One of mine has failed at least two times now, and it could be that > people just *love* to run tests from 3320... > > My gen 1 probe in 5539 has never had *any* issues. > > gert > -- > have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? > > SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard > Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann > D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) > Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 >

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Probe is down but does send DNS according tot SOS history
by gboonie 20 May '16

20 May '16

Hi, How can it be that the status of a probe is down while I see current DNS requests in the SOS list without any remarks in the 'info' column? Even the power-up time is increasing. If the probe can send DNS requests, why does it not have some mechanism to recover? Seem not too hard to make it reboot if it's status is down. Thanks, Dave

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New on RIPE Labs: There Is Gold in This Stream - Sifting Through Used RIPE Atlas Traceroute Results
by Mirjam Kühne 20 May '16

20 May '16

Dear colleagues, Please find a new article on RIPE Labs demonstrating the value of the results collected by RIPE Atlas independent of the original purpose for collecting them. Using all traceroute results from a particular day as an example, we first show that near real-time analysis of the result stream is feasible. Then we show that this has great potential for studying the packet layer of the Internet in general and for providing tools to network operators in particular. All this suggests a large and diverse potential for further work. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/there-is-gold-in-this-stream?pk_campaign=… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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Replacing flash key
by Marat Khalili 20 May '16

20 May '16

My V3 probe (26656) disconnected yesterday, simple reboots didn't help. Suspecting problem with USB key I first tried to replace it with a new one. I took bog standard Transcend JetFlash 350 8Gb right out of the wrapping and inserted it into a started probe 10 minutes after boot. Did not format the flash key or alter it in any way, because someone previously said that it is not necessary. Unfortunately, probe did not come up, and the flash key seems unchanged after approximately 1 hour wait. What should I do to switch to a new flash key? Also, did someone tried connecting HDDs/SSDs, shouldn't they work better? (Probe did appear after I inserted previously used flash key into it, but I suspect problem will re-occur in the future, so I'd like to know a way to fix it more permanently.) -- With Best Regards, Marat Khalili

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evaluating ripe atlas
by Rafal.Jankowski＠thomsonreuters.com 19 May '16

19 May '16

Dear Ripe Atlas Users, I would like to evaluate ripe atlas features. Is there any quick and simple way to earn credits? From what I can see becoming sponsorship begins from 1000 EUR which is above my budget for evaluating the tool. Hosting probe is not something feasible for me at the moment. Is there any option to buy credits for something like 100 EUR? Also I wanted to see webinar recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJMFGuM0kMo linked on https://atlas.ripe.net/resources/training-and-materials/ but it seems to be unavailable. Regards, Rafał ________________________________ This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient and contains information that may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments. Certain required legal entity disclosures can be accessed on our website.<http://site.thomsonreuters.com/site/disclosures/>

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probe coverage map?
by Bajpai, Vaibhav 18 May '16

18 May '16

Hello, What happened to the probe coverage map that showed number of probes at different level of details depending on the zoomed-in state of the map? — I have an earlier screenshot [a] (2015) to explain what I mean. It was a very nice plot. [a] http://i.imgur.com/d0tI1qP.png I was looking for a probe coverage map to put in one of my slides. I ended up using [b], but I miss [a]. [b] https://www-static.ripe.net/static/rnd-ui/atlas/static/page/img/allprobes.p… Best, Vaibhav =================================== Vaibhav Bajpai www.vaibhavbajpai.com Room 91, Research I School of Engineering and Sciences Jacobs University Bremen, Germany ===================================

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New on RIPE Labs: Pinpointing Delay and Forwarding Anomalies using RIPE Atlas Built-in Measurements
by Mirjam Kuehne 18 May '16

18 May '16

Dear colleagues, Detecting network disruptions is a recurring problem. Clearly locating performance degradation is an important step in debugging and subsequently fixing connectivity issues. In this new RIPE Labs article the authors propose a set of complementary methods to detect network disruptions from traceroute measurements created by RIPE Atlas Built-In Measurements: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/romain_fontugne/pinpointing-delay-and-forward… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Adding additional probes to existing measurement or exchange them
by Annika Wickert 18 May '16

18 May '16

Hi everybody, I just stumbled across this problem, that I want to exchange probes on a actual running measurement because some of the probes I defined 2weeks ago went offline. And I want other probes to take over their job. Is that possible in any way? Cheers, Annika Wickert

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USB drive
by Michael Ionescu 13 May '16

13 May '16

Hi all, I have a probe that's been down for several days now. I did contact RIPE about it, but support has been superficial. I also didn't yet find the level of technical detail I need in the information on the website and in this list's archives. The 8GB drive, when reformatted on a windows box with FAT32 as per support instructions, surprisingly only comes out with a 1GB partition. Inspecting the drive under linux, I find multiple partitions, with only the first containing an a fat32 filesystem: Platte /dev/sdc: 7927 MByte, 7927234560 Byte 244 Köpfe, 62 Sektoren/Spur, 1023 Zylinder, zusammen 15482880 Sektoren Einheiten = Sektoren von 1 × 512 = 512 Bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Festplattenidentifikation: 0xc3072e18 Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sdc1 2048 2099199 1048576 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sdc2 2099200 4196351 1048576 83 Linux /dev/sdc3 4196352 6293503 1048576 83 Linux On first glance, the others contain ext2 filesystems # fsck -N /dev/sdc? fsck von util-linux 2.20.1 [/sbin/fsck.vfat (1) -- /dev/sdc1] fsck.vfat /dev/sdc1 [/sbin/fsck.ext2 (2) -- /dev/sdc2] fsck.ext2 /dev/sdc2 [/sbin/fsck.ext2 (3) -- /dev/sdc3] fsck.ext2 /dev/sdc3 but on further inspections do not contain a valid magic number in their superblocks, so they are effectively unformatted. I would therefore suspect that they are not being used by the probe. Now the question: What is the correct layout supposed to look like (primary/secondary, size, ID, FS-type)? I would like to get my probe back up and running. Bonus question: What can I expect to find in point of files/data on the drive, that would tell me whether the probe was working correctly until I cut power and removed the drive? Thanks, Michael

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[dagstuhl seminar]: global measurements: practice and experience
by Bajpai, Vaibhav 12 May '16

12 May '16

Dear RIPE Atlas / MAT WG -- sorry for cross-posting. A SIGCOMM CCR article summarising the Dagstuhl seminar on ‘Global Measurements: Practice and Experience’ just came online [a]. Thought to share it with you: [a] http://www.sigcomm.org/sites/default/files/ccr/papers/2016/April/0000000-00… Background: ===================== We recently helped organise a Dagstuhl seminar on Global Measurements: Practice and Experience [b] from January 04 – 07, 2016. This was a followup of the seminar on Global Measurement Framework [c] which focused on the development of global Internet measurement platforms and associated metrics. [b] http://www.dagstuhl.de/16012 [c] http://www.dagstuhl.de/13472 The second seminar aimed at discussing the practical experience gained with building global measurement platforms. It brought together people who are actively involved in the design and maintenance of global measurement systems, who do research on the data delivered by global measurement systems, and who use data derived from global measurement systems in order to manage networks or services or as input for regulatory decisions. ===================== Best, Vaibhav =================================== Vaibhav Bajpai www.vaibhavbajpai.com Room 91, Research I School of Engineering and Sciences Jacobs University Bremen, Germany ===================================

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