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research support: credits/limits for DSCP marking measurements
by Stephen Strowes 07 May '21

07 May '21

Hi, One more RIPE Atlas research support request: this time on DSCP marking/bleaching from as many vantage points as possible. This one feeds into the IETF tsvwg, and is pretty applicable to operators in the RIPE community also. In short: they have one target host, and they want to test 3 DSCP codepoints with traceroutes from as many probes as possible. This is not an ongoing study. They'll run a pretty typical traceroute config from as many probes as possible once for each DSCP they're interested in, and they'd like to do it as rapidly as possible. This is simplest as three one-off measurements. Could you: - bump their credit allowance if necessary - bump the number of probes allowed per measurement to some high number; as close to "all probes" as possible? The account they're using is ana(a)erg.abdn.ac.uk <mailto:ana@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Cheers, S. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Can you help perform a large-scale ATLAS measurement campaign? Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 19:48:40 +0100 From: ana(a)netstat.org.uk To: Stephen Strowes <sds(a)ripe.net> Hi Stephen, > Would you like to run (e.g.) thousands of probes to the target with > all DSCP values as rapidly as possible, or would you run multiple > measurements with 1,000 probes each over a longer period? > Thousands of probes as rapidly as possible, but each DSCP is a separate measurement (so 3 separate measurements). I don’t expect to repeat them over a longer period. > > Either way, the credit cost will likely be the same, but the Atlas > folks may need to modify other limits to accommodate the measurements. > Your current account settings should be visible at > https://atlas.ripe.net/atlas/user/ > The only limit that worries me there is: Maximum number of probes per measurement:1,000 It doesn’t look like these measurements will hit the other limits. > Also: Is this email address the one to add credits to? > The account uses email address ana(a)erg.abdn.ac.uk <mailto:ana@erg.abdn.ac.uk>, rather than this one. Thanks again! Ana

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Error for getting measurement results from an api
by Sanaa GHANDI 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hello, I would like to use the Ripe api : /api/v2/measurements/{msm_id}/participation-requests/{source_id}/. for getting measurement results, but I keep getting the following error (in the picture). Here is the website of the different apis: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/api/v2/reference/#!/measurements/Type_0_1_2_3_4… Is it due to my key? Knowing that I have already used it to create measurements and get measurement results and in other apis from Ripe. Concerning the example below, I have checked the measurement ID and that the probe in the source ID figures among the participant probes. I don't quiet see the source of the problem, do you have any ideas about this? Thank you, Cheers, Sanaa

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Satellite based "last mile" and Atlas probes
by Eric Kuhnke 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Hello all, I am running what I believe to be the only probe on a Starlink satellite connection right now: https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/1001821/ Is anyone aware of a list of probe ID numbers which are definitively known to be on some form of satellite-based access technology? I am thinking of, for instance, sites on consumer grade geostationary VSATs, more serious VSATs, or in island nations which are not known to have any submarine cables. The reason why I am searching for such a list is that I intend to consume some of my accumulated credits to run periodic one-off measurements of latency, traceroutes and other things to quantify improvements in satellite based latency and other performance metrics over time. And to quantify what it looks like when an ISP previously dependent on geostationary (min 495ms latency) gains access to either terrestrial/submarine fiber, or a lower latency low earth orbit based service. The best information I can find right now is to manually pick probes which never show below geostationary latency to a first hop in any traceroute, and are located on the probes map in certain island locations. It's a bit more time consuming to manually search for probes in continental locations which are on a VSAT (for instance if anyone knows of a probe on a VSAT terminal in a remote part of Wyoming, USA, let me know...).

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RIPE Atlas CLI tools docker image
by Anurag Bhatia 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Hello everyone, A little while ago I put RIPE Atlas CLI tools docker image based on alpine. - https://hub.docker.com/r/anuragbhatia/ripe-atlas-tools It stores the API keys at ~/.config on the host (and that is mounted inside the container). Dockerfile can be found here <https://github.com/anuragbhatia/ripe-atlas-tools/blob/master/Dockerfile> and one can use it to build image locally if intended to. *Example usage: * docker run --rm -v ~/.config:/root/.config -it anuragbhatia/ripe-atlas-tools ripe-atlas measure traceroute --from-country IN --target he.net One can set an alias in the local shell to make it appear almost like a locally installed setup. E.g on fish: anurag@Anurags-MacBook-Pro ~> alias ripe-atlas='docker run --rm -v ~/.config:/root/.config -it anuragbhatia/ripe-atlas-tools ripe-atlas' anurag@Anurags-MacBook-Pro ~> funcsave ripe-atlas anurag@Anurags-MacBook-Pro ~> Thus the reduces syntax is alias becomes: ripe-atlas measure traceroute --from-country IN --target he.net Please do share if anyone has any feedback. -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com

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Filtering measurements
by Sanaa GHANDI 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Hello, I hope you are all doing well. I have a few questions concerning the measurements selection, and I am interested only on the anchoring mesh measurements. In fact, for optimisation issues, I would like to be able to select only measurements of interest: For example, I want to get the results coming from sources: X and Y, and targeting the anchor 6771. Now I can get the measures targeting the anchor 6771 using this code from Altas Cousteau ################################################################## from ripe.atlas.cousteau import MeasurementRequest filters = {'tags': ['anchoring','mesh',6771] } measurements = MeasurementRequest(**filters) #################################################################### But I have no idea of how to make a filter on the sources as well, since all we can access through the measurements are the number of anchors requested and not their ids. Do you know a way to get access to the sources of a measurement via Atlas Cousteau or another Ripe Tool ? Thank you -- Sanaa

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Custom box and bag
by Slite 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

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Request for credits for research
by Mohan, Nitinder 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Dear RIPE community, I hope you are all safe and sound. I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. We are currently working on an ongoing research project which aims to analyze the availability and reachability of cloud data centers globally. The first work of our work will appear in ACM HotNets 2020 titled "Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears" (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html). We are currently preparing the camera-ready version of the paper and will share it with the community by hosting it (and the associated dataset) publicly soon. We are currently planing to submit the second leg of our work to a conference with submission deadline a month. In order to complete all set of measurements for required analysis, we are scheduling very large-scale measurements over the platform which has burned through almost all our credits and left us in need. I have always found the RIPE Atlas community to be helpful and generous towards research and I am hoping that you could support our research by donating us some of your spare credits. Your help will be highly appreciated. My RIPE account is nitinder.mohan(a)helsinki.fi Thanks and Regards Nitinder Mohan Postdoctoral Fellow Technical University of Munich, Germany <http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/nmohan/>https://www.nitindermohan.com/

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Feature request for Validated Timestamps
by Will 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

I was starting to work on a mapping measurement project where I wanted to delegate measurements to remote machines. There are a number of schemes that have been used where a not fully trusted node can come away from a measurement with a record that can be used to verify that it actually made the measurement. Many of these make use of a time stamp signed by the "server" as a way to prevent replaying old measurements. Things that have been done with this feature also include tlsnotary[1], which works with web servers where the "server random" bytes of the tls handshake includes the server timestamp (the default for openssl). The implementation of ssl currently used by probes does not appear to include the timestamp in the server hello. Another approach would be to add a "roughtime" service on probes Interested to hear if there would be willingness to have probe software support something in this direction. [1] https://tlsnotary.org/ --Will

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Spurious "would violate your maximum daily spending limit"
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

I receive a: {"error":{"detail":"There was a problem with your request","status":400,"title":"Bad Request","code":102,"errors":[{"source":{"pointer":""},"detail":"Executing this measurement request would violate your maximum daily spending limit of 1000000.0 credits. Please stop some of your currently running measurements and try again."} from the API. The request is: {'is_oneoff': True, 'definitions': [{'description': 'DNS resolution of use-application-dns.net./A from AS #3215', 'af': 4, 'type': 'dns', 'query_argument': 'use-application-dns.net.', 'query_class': 'IN', 'query_type': 'A', 'set_rd_bit': True, 'protocol': 'UDP', 'use_probe_resolver': True}], 'probes': [{'requested': 100, 'type': 'asn', 'value': '3215', 'tags': {'include': ['system-ipv4-works', 'system-resolves-a-correctly', 'system-resolves Which is very small. I run this sort of requests frequently. My daily expenditure is small (13,680 credits). Why is it rejected?

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What to do with broken v1 probe?
by Lorenzo Colitti 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Fellow atlas users, After more than 10 years (!) of 99% uptime (see below), my probe v1 appears to have given up the ghost. When connected to power, the lights still come on, but after a few seconds link bounces, and it never sends any packets. Any idea what to do? Should I just apply for a new probe? Are new probes being given out these days? Cheers, Lorenzo ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: RIPE Atlas <no-reply(a)ripe.net> Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 9:59 PM Subject: Congratulations! Your RIPE Atlas probe 333 is 10 years old! To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo(a)colitti.com> Dear Lorenzo Colitti, It's your probe's birthday today !! To celebrate that fact, we are giving you 9869024 credits to use for scheduling your own measurements. In the last 10 years your probe was connected for 99% of the time. Happy measuring and thank you on behalf of everyone at the RIPE NCC and the other RIPE Atlas users. The RIPE Atlas Team

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