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
Dear colleagues,
Thanks to nineteen new RIPE Atlas Anchors being activated over the last three months, we have now reached an important milestone: 250 anchors online!
Congratulations to anchor 250 hosted by Mogul Service and Support LLC in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and to APNIC for sponsoring it!
These are the other anchors that have become active since our last announcement in November:
- nl-ede-as12859, hosted by BIT in Ede, Netherlands
- de-tua-as21413, hosted by envia TEL GmbH in Taucha, Germany
- de-ham-as12731, hosted by IPHH Internet Port Hamburg GmbH in Hamburg, Germany (replaces older hardware)
- py-slo-as27733, hosted by IXpy (sponsored by LACNIC) in San Lorenzo, Paraguay
- uk-did-as786, hosted by Jisc in Didcot, United Kingdom
- Two anchors hosted by Rabobank: nl-bst-as8211 in Best and nl-bxt-as8211 in Boxtel, Netherlands
- nz-wlg-as9834, hosted by Trade Me in Wellington, New Zealand
- lt-vno-as21412, hosted by CGATES in Vilnius, Lithuania
- de-ber-as25291, hosted by SysEleven GmbH in Berlin, Germany (replaces older hardware)
- us-bcb-as1312, hosted by Virginia Tech Transportation Institute in Blacksburg, United States
- Two anchors hosted by Elisa Obj: fi-hel-as6667 in Helsinki and fi-tmp-as719 in Tampere, Finland
- lu-ezt-as2602, hosted by Fondation RESTENA in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg (replaces older hardware)
- de-kae-as8560, hosted by 1&1 Internet SE in Karlsruhe, Germany
- fr-par-as5377, hosted by Marlink Enterprise AS in Paris, France
- fr-tls-as39405, hosted by FULLSAVE in Toulouse, France
- nl-ams-as286, hosted by KPN Eurorings B.V. in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- mm-rgn-as132167, hosted by Ooredoo Myanmar (sponsored by APNIC) in Yangon, Myanmar (IPv4-only anchor)
- fr-ilm-as57119, hosted by NAITWAYS in Issy, France
- us-lxa-as8560, hosted by 1&1 Internet Inc. in Lenexa, United States
You can find the full list of anchors, a map of their locations, a list of the hosting organisations and more information about RIPE Atlas Anchors online:
https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/list/
Interested in hosting a RIPE Atlas Anchor? Learn more: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/
There are several organisations that want to host a RIPE Atlas Anchor but don’t have the necessary funding. Find out more about the RIPE NCC campaign to sponsor 15 RIPE Atlas Anchors
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/campaign-to-sponsor-15-ripe-atlas…
We would also like to remind you about our ongoing cooperation with APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC and ISOC: thanks to their help we are getting more geographical diversity to the measurement data.
If your organisation is in their region contact us at <atlas(a)ripe.net> and we will get you in touch with them!
And don’t forget to let us know by contacting us at <atlas(a)ripe.net> if you’re doing something interesting with RIPE Atlas data - we always want to hear about your use cases, research and experiences!
Regards,
Michela Galante
RIPE NCC
Dear colleagues,
As you are probably aware, DNSMON* and RIPE Atlas built-in**
measurements are often used when analysing outages and other issues with
important DNS services, particularly the root zone servers. These
measurements do not provide a direct indication of the impact on actual
end-user experience because they involve directly querying authoritative
name servers, thereby ignoring the effects of having multiple
authoritative name servers as well as caching local recursive resolvers.
To improve upon our DNS monitoring, we will initiate two built-in DNS
measurements from all RIPE Atlas probes that use the probes' default
resolvers instead of authoritative name servers. The first measurement
will query for random top-level domains with the intention of avoiding
caches and therefore hitting at least one root name server. The second
measurement will query for popular domain names, with the intention of
hitting caches where appropriate and getting an idea of the true impact
on users.
As a starting point for the second measurement, we will use a recent
snapshot of the global top 50 visited sites according to the Alexa top
sites list***, which combines unique visitors and individual page views
in its calculations. Probes will cycle through these domains, querying
for a different A record every 10 minutes.
Since DNS queries containing these domains will be made from every
connected RIPE Atlas probe, we would like to ask for feedback on whether
querying the DNS for any of these domains could pose legal or political
problems for probe hosts in certain parts of the world. I have also
included the next 25 most popular domains below, which will be used to
fill any gaps caused by removing items from the main list.
Kind regards,
Chris Amin
RIPE NCC
* https://atlas.ripe.net/dnsmon/
** https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/built-in/
***
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_most_popular_websites&ol…
Provisional 50 domains to query
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google.com.
youtube.com.
facebook.com.
baidu.com.
wikipedia.org.
yahoo.com.
google.co.in.
amazon.com.
qq.com.
google.co.jp.
live.com.
taobao.com.
vk.com.
twitter.com.
instagram.com.
hao123.com.
sohu.com.
sina.com.cn.
reddit.com.
google.de.
linkedin.com.
tmall.com.
yahoo.co.jp.
weibo.com.
google.fr.
360.cn.
google.co.uk.
google.ru.
google.com.br.
yandex.ru.
ebay.com.
bing.com.
msn.com.
google.it.
soso.com.
t.co.
wordpress.com.
google.es.
microsoft.com.
tumblr.com.
aliexpress.com.
blogspot.com.
netflix.com.
amazon.co.jp.
ok.ru.
google.com.hk.
stackoverflow.com.
google.ca.
google.com.mx.
imgur.com.
Next 25 most popular domains, excluding pornography
===================================================
apple.com.
Naver.com.
mail.ru.
imdb.com.
popads.net.
onclickads.net.
office.com.
google.co.kr.
github.com.
pinterest.com.
paypal.com.
tianya.cn.
google.com.tw.
google.com.tr.
google.com.au.
diply.com.
amazon.de.
google.co.id.
microsoftonline.com.
onclckds.com.
twitch.tv.
adobe.com.
amazon.co.uk.
wikia.com.
cnzz.com.
