On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM Cornelius Keck <atlas@keck.us> wrote:
My first-generation probe (1198) has been down for 2 or so years.
Managed to get it going again inasmuch it pings the outside world.
Current status at https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/1198/overview shows it
to be abandoned, though it does SOS-ping. What could be done to change
its state to active?

Thx!

-Cornelius


Hello,

Every time an old v1 or v2 dies, we shed a virtual tear... these  cuties have been up and running for up to 15 years now - to wit: https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/1/overview where you can see "FIRST CONNECTED 2010-10-29 15:53:03 (UTC)" so it is literally 15 years old *precisely today*. TBH we expected them to live for a couple of years, maybe. We also expected them to run out of memory and reboot every couple of hours - yet in the end managed to keep them connected for weeks, if not months sometimes...

Unfortunately, they wear out after a while, and there's not much one can do to repair. I suspect yours is in some limbo - TCP/IP stack is up but it lost its key material or the knowledge of what to do as a probe. Still it has a total uptime of "11y 141d 3h 34m 10s", so it had a good run :-)

As for the future, I'd recommend spinning up a software probe, if you can.

Regards,
Robert