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LED status for RIPE probes
by DurgaPrasad - DatasoftComnet 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Hello all, Can someone post the LED status and its meaning of the RIPE probes? Some probes take forever to register and we keep power cycling them interrupting I don't know what. Regards Durga Prasad Datasoft Comnet Pvt. Ltd. Cisco Premier Certified Partner VMware Enterprise Partner ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Find more about us at <http://www.datasoftcomnet.com> www.datasoftcomnet.com Datasoft Comnet Pvt. Ltd. 48-12-14, Flat Nos. 103 & 104, Vanitha Residency, Janakirama Street. (Old City Cable Lane) Srinagar, Visakhapatnam Pin. 530016. Ph. 2726942, 2525225. Mobile: 9849111010. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Branches: Mumbai, Hyderabad <https://www.linkedin.com/company/datasoft-comnet-private-limited> https://www.linkedin.com/company/datasoft-comnet-private-limited

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News and Happy Holidays!
by Michela Galante 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, It’s been a long time since we shared some news, and we have a lot to tell you about! ******** One million credits ******** Do you know that you have 1,000,000 RIPE Atlas credits as thanks for helping us build the largest Internet measurement network? Here are some ways you can take advantage of these credits to run your own measurements: 1) If a customer complains they can't reach your network, you can schedule a ping from 500 probes to diagnose where else in the world this problem is visible. Cost for a one-off ping measurement using 500 probes around the world: 3,000 credits. 2) If you suspect that there are reachability problems between your server and a specific network, you can perform traceroute measurements every 30 minutes from 50 probes located in a certain AS Number, or in a specified country. Daily cost: 72,000 credits. 3) Use DomainMON to monitor your own name servers: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-atlas-domainmon-is… For example, you could schedule a measurement of 6 name servers for ripe.net with UDP SOA every hour from 10 probes. Daily cost: 28,800 credits. View your own credits here: https://atlas.ripe.net/user/credits/ If you haven’t received the million credits yet, it means that none of your ambassador probes have been connected yet. Please chase your contacts and ask them to get their probes online! ******** 10% credits from your online ambassador probes ******** Since this is the holiday season, we believe our ambassadors deserve special recognition for their help. As an ambassador, you will now receive daily 10% of the credits that your ambassador probes generate when they are online. That means you’ll receive 2,160 credits every day for each of your ambassador probes that remain online. ******** Ambassador page improvements ******** The ambassador page has been improved. Besides being the place where you register the details of the people you gave the probes to, you can now find helpful information, including: 1) Tools for promoting RIPE Atlas 2) Communications: links to mailing list, conferences page and updates 3) How do I know where probes are needed? 4) How do I ask for more probes? https://atlas.ripe.net/ambassadors/probes/ ******** RIPE Atlas in multiple languages ******** You’ve asked us whether we can provide information about RIPE Atlas in other languages. We’ll soon have brochures available online in Spanish, Portuguese and French, with more languages coming. In the meantime, some community members have provided some information and we've collected their articles and blogs on GitHub. Take a look - and feel free to add your own: https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community/multi-lingual-docs It has been a great year for RIPE Atlas and we wish to thank you for your contribution! We hope we can count on your cooperation again next year. Happy Holidays! Michela, Lia & Vesna Measurements Community Building RIPE NCC

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Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] LED status for RIPE probes
by M. Tajbakhsh 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

Dear Folks, Hope everybody is doing fine. Couldn't agree more on the issue of power adapters. Expecting volunteers to provide them, especially at home, is a pain in the neck at each of my giveaway sessions. Some of volunteers actually use their phone chargers or PC ports for that and I am afraid they may take it back any time for granted, and leave the probe off and forgotten forever. Also the LED's give no clues as everything has been coded from scratch on the probes. One of mine has been running for a week with the big reset button LED off, then after a power recycle, it came up and the probe doing fine as before, while some other LED is never seen on. In addition, no network activity is shown on the probe itself, and I have to keep an eye on a one-out-of-many LED on the switch to see if the life is going on with the probe. I think developers can put a little effort to make sense out of LED's and give us a manual in order to be able to troubleshoot probes. I suggest one for network, one for activity, one for connectivity to the server, one for updates, one for power-up One other demand is the poster of the Atlas. It doesn't help promotions much. More information is demanded, much like a catalog, answering more questions and highlighting more features. Gaining people's cyber trust is not easy these days. Especially when they want to participate at their own costs, "at their own risk" is not an option. Also, as we may need many copies of it to share here and there, it would be nice if some pack of hard copies is enclosed with the probes sent to us and and at least 2 sheets for each host. Last but not least, an online certification or badge or some ID with our picture on it or something alike can be of much more credit to ambassadors and helps us get around resistance. Regards, M. Tajbakhsh Network Lecturer, Advisor On Fri, 12/25/2015 08:52 AM, DurgaPrasad - DatasoftComnet <dp(a)datasoftcomnet.com> wrote: > Hello all, Can someone post the LED status and its meaning of the RIPE probes? Some probes take forever to register and we keep power cycling them interrupting I don’t know what. Regards Durga Prasad

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Join RIPE Atlas Hackathon - 14-15 November - Bucharest
by Vesna Manojlovic 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, We are calling all software developers, designers and network operators! The next RIPE Atlas hackathon takes place 14-15 November in Bucharest, right before RIPE 71. We're looking for creative thinkers to help us find new ways to use RIPE Atlas data to monitor networks and troubleshoot issues as well as ways to improve the existing toolset. Is this you? Then we want to hear from you! And otherwise, please spread the word to your contacts! Thanks! ----------------------- How to Apply ----------------------- The application form is online at: https://atlas.ripe.net/hackathon/tools-2015/#!application-form *The deadline to apply is Tuesday, 6 October* Successful applicants will: - Work alongside RIPE Atlas engineers - Get to know others in your field - Contribute to the shared code - Exchange knowledge and experience 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. ---------------------- Hackathon details --------------------- Date: 14-15 November 2015 Time: Saturday 09:00-19:00, Sunday 09:00-21:00 (including party) Location: JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel, Bucharest, Romania Applicants will hear back from the jury on 12 October so that travel arrangements can be made on time. Find out more on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/join-the-ripe-atlas-tools-hackathon -------------------- Call for Sponsors ------------------- We are still looking for sponsors! Is your organisation interested in supporting our efforts? Please email me promptly and directly – thank you! I look forward to seeing you there! Regards, Vesna

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Fwd: Re: Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks
by Daniel Karrenberg 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: 21 2015 <> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Subject: Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks To: dp(a)datasoftcomnet.com References: <lxatxl6n4u6ud94e7wf2eyk6.1440476198121(a)email.android.com> From: Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg(a)ripe.net> X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55DC1E78.8070503(a)ripe.net> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:51:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <lxatxl6n4u6ud94e7wf2eyk6.1440476198121(a)email.android.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit My elevator pitch: Of course you have your network monitored and running well. ;-) Your customer experience however is based on the *Inter*net: They want to communicate with customers of other networks. So how is your connectivity with other networks at any point in time? RIPE Atlas provides thousands of vantage points around the Internet to look at your network and measure how well your customers are reachable from the rest of the Internet. You can set up both continuous monitoring and look at specific issues in real time. You can integrate the continuous external monitoring with your internal monitoring system. The very reasonable price is installing a few probes. If you are happy with what you get, install an anchor. Daniel On 25.08.15 6:18 , dp(a)datasoftcomnet.com wrote: > Hello all, > Can someone share an elevator pitch on why an ISP or an organisation > that is on 24/7 needs to put a probe in their network. > What are the benefits they would get? > Has someone prepared a case study. > > Regards DP > 9849111010. > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos if any. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Emile Aben <emile.aben(a)ripe.net> > Date: 25/08/2015 09:25 (GMT+05:30) > To: Sebastian Castro <sebastian(a)nzrs.net.nz> > Cc: ripe-atlas-ambassadors(a)ripe.net > Subject: Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in > more locations and networks > > On 24/08/15 23:53, Sebastian Castro wrote: >> >> >> On 24/08/15 11:27 pm, Vesna Manojlovic wrote: >>> Dear ambassadors, >> >> Hi Vesna: >> >>> >>> You’ve helped us do a great job in distributing RIPE Atlas probes to >>> many networks and regions of the world, but we still have work to do! >>> There are a few ways to find out exactly where we need your help: >>> >>> 1) Networks with the most users and fewest probes >>> >>> In order to increase topological diversity, it would be good to "target" >>> the users of the networks that don’t have a lot - or any - coverage. >>> >>> This RIPE Labs article lists the top 20 ASNs: >>> > https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/improving-ripe-atlas-coverage-what-… >>> >>> >>> Or you can see the raw-text table here, sorted by the network size: >>> http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas_eyeball_coverage.txt >>> >> >> Emile's work is really valuable and much appreciated. Is it possible to >> have a date of generation on that file? It seems to be the same as few >> months ago, considering we have deployed probes in the last two months >> that increase coverage. > > This was a one-off, timestamp on the file says I did that on 26 June. > I've just put a new one here: > http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas-coverage/ > >>> 2) Comparing population density with the distribution of RIPE Atlas > probes >>> >>> Emile Aben used CartoDB to plot, population and probe density on the >>> same map: >>> > https://emileaben.cartodb.com/viz/3caa5144-823e-11e4-8025-0e018d66dc29/publ… >>> >>> >>> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/distribution-of-ripe-atlas-probes >>> >>> 3) Comparing coverage between countries >>> >>> This map shows the percentage of probes per country: >>> https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/density/ >>> >>> Whichever method you choose, we trust your instincts and your knowledge >>> of the local community to make the right decision and give probes to the >>> best people! >> >> We have a different method, that uses address space to determine which >> ASNs are relevant to cover. >> >> The eyeball method works for ISP that serve customers, but not for those >> that provide transit. Our methodology, that picks a BGP table dump and >> calculates the ratio of /24 versus number of probes helps us to have >> more coverage and to quickly identify targets. > > Heh. We had a discussion last week in the office which boiled down to > pretty much what you describe here, as an alternative to 'eyeball' data. > I expect more in this space soon :) > > Cheers and many thanks to all our ambassadors for the great work they > are doing! > Emile > > _______________________________________________ > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors mailing list > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors(a)ripe.net > https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors > > > _______________________________________________ > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors mailing list > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors(a)ripe.net > https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors >

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Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks
by dp＠datasoftcomnet.com 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Hello all, Can someone share an elevator pitch on why an ISP or an organisation that is on 24/7 needs to put a probe in their network. What are the benefits they would get? Has someone prepared a case study. Regards DP 9849111010. Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos if any. -------- Original message -------- From: Emile Aben <emile.aben(a)ripe.net> Date: 25/08/2015 09:25 (GMT+05:30) To: Sebastian Castro <sebastian(a)nzrs.net.nz> Cc: ripe-atlas-ambassadors(a)ripe.net Subject: Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks On 24/08/15 23:53, Sebastian Castro wrote: > > > On 24/08/15 11:27 pm, Vesna Manojlovic wrote: >> Dear ambassadors, > > Hi Vesna: > >> >> You’ve helped us do a great job in distributing RIPE Atlas probes to >> many networks and regions of the world, but we still have work to do! >> There are a few ways to find out exactly where we need your help: >> >> 1) Networks with the most users and fewest probes >> >> In order to increase topological diversity, it would be good to "target" >> the users of the networks that don’t have a lot - or any - coverage. >> >> This RIPE Labs article lists the top 20 ASNs: >> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/improving-ripe-atlas-coverage-what-… >> >> >> Or you can see the raw-text table here, sorted by the network size: >> http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas_eyeball_coverage.txt >> > > Emile's work is really valuable and much appreciated. Is it possible to > have a date of generation on that file? It seems to be the same as few > months ago, considering we have deployed probes in the last two months > that increase coverage. This was a one-off, timestamp on the file says I did that on 26 June. I've just put a new one here: http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas-coverage/ >> 2) Comparing population density with the distribution of RIPE Atlas probes >> >> Emile Aben used CartoDB to plot, population and probe density on the >> same map: >> https://emileaben.cartodb.com/viz/3caa5144-823e-11e4-8025-0e018d66dc29/publ… >> >> >> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/distribution-of-ripe-atlas-probes >> >> 3) Comparing coverage between countries >> >> This map shows the percentage of probes per country: >> https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/density/ >> >> Whichever method you choose, we trust your instincts and your knowledge >> of the local community to make the right decision and give probes to the >> best people! > > We have a different method, that uses address space to determine which > ASNs are relevant to cover. > > The eyeball method works for ISP that serve customers, but not for those > that provide transit. Our methodology, that picks a BGP table dump and > calculates the ratio of /24 versus number of probes helps us to have > more coverage and to quickly identify targets. Heh. We had a discussion last week in the office which boiled down to pretty much what you describe here, as an alternative to 'eyeball' data. I expect more in this space soon :) Cheers and many thanks to all our ambassadors for the great work they are doing! Emile _______________________________________________ RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors mailing list RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors(a)ripe.net https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors

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Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks
by Vesna Manojlovic 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Dear ambassadors, You’ve helped us do a great job in distributing RIPE Atlas probes to many networks and regions of the world, but we still have work to do! There are a few ways to find out exactly where we need your help: 1) Networks with the most users and fewest probes In order to increase topological diversity, it would be good to "target" the users of the networks that don’t have a lot - or any - coverage. This RIPE Labs article lists the top 20 ASNs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/improving-ripe-atlas-coverage-what-… Or you can see the raw-text table here, sorted by the network size: http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas_eyeball_coverage.txt 2) Comparing population density with the distribution of RIPE Atlas probes Emile Aben used CartoDB to plot, population and probe density on the same map: https://emileaben.cartodb.com/viz/3caa5144-823e-11e4-8025-0e018d66dc29/publ… https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/distribution-of-ripe-atlas-probes 3) Comparing coverage between countries This map shows the percentage of probes per country: https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/density/ Whichever method you choose, we trust your instincts and your knowledge of the local community to make the right decision and give probes to the best people! Kind regards, Vesna on behalf of the Measurements Community Building team

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RIPE Atlas News for Ambassadors
by Michela Galante 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, We’ve already convinced you about the benefits of hosting a RIPE Atlas probe, which is why you help us do the same with people all over the world. But do you ever find it difficult to explain to others all the different benefits and potential use cases of RIPE Atlas? We have a special collection of articles on RIPE Labs that do just that. They include blog posts by probe and anchor hosts about how they use RIPE Atlas data to troubleshoot network issues and monitor their services, analyses carried out by RIPE Atlas researchers, scientific papers that have been published using RIPE Atlas data, and a section for tutorials, workshops and presentations on RIPE Atlas given by people at conferences all over the world. https://labs.ripe.net/atlas/user-experiences We hope you’ll find this collection useful in helping explain RIPE Atlas and its many uses to potential probe hosts. And who knows? It might even spark an idea or two about how *you* can use RIPE Atlas data, too. We’re continually adding to the collection, so check back often for new articles. By the way, this is the first of a series of news and updates that we plan to send out to our RIPE Atlas ambassador community on a regular basis, so stay tuned. There may even be a new bonus for ambassadors that will be announced soon... And, as always, thank you for helping us build the world’s largest Internet measurement network - we couldn’t do it without you! Kind regards, Michela Galante Measurements Community Building RIPE NCC

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New Features for RIPE Atlas Ambassadors
by Michela Galante 06 May '15

06 May '15

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, Conferences are a great opportunity to hand out RIPE Atlas probes, and we’ve made it easier than ever for the RIPE Atlas community to come together at such events. On the RIPE Atlas conference page, you can now list any conferences you'll be attending where you’ll be handing out RIPE Atlas probes. If you don’t see a conference listed, let us know and we’ll add it for you. And whenever you’re at a conference, use the hashtag #RIPEAtlas to spread the word and let people know they can get a probe from you. https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!conferences We are very happy that there are now 8,000+ probes connected around the globe - and with your help, we know we can reach our goal of 10,000! The more you can help distribute probes to places where there is currently a shortage, the more beneficial the RIPE Atlas network will become for the entire Internet community: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/distribution-of-ripe-atlas-probes Other RIPE Atlas News: You may be interested to know that we’re working closely with other RIRs, including APNIC, AFRINIC and LACNIC, to deploy RIPE Atlas probes and anchors in those regions where we need them most. You can read more about this cooperation here: AFRINIC: http://afrinic.net/en/initiatives/afrinicripe-atlas APNIC: http://blog.apnic.net/2015/03/10/apnic-supporting-deployment-of-internet-me… LACNIC (in three languages): http://www.lacnic.net/en/web/lacnic/ripe-atlas And in March, we held the first-ever RIPE Atlas hackathon, which was a big success! Read all about the impressive results: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-hackathon-results Your Frequently Asked Questions: Q: How do I ask for more probes? A: Send an email to mcb(a)ripe.net. Note that we will be checking that at least 50% of the probes assigned to you are already online before we send more. Q: How can I find out whether the probes I distributed are online? A: As an ambassador, when logged in to the RIPE Atlas website, you can see the status of the probes you’ve handed out. When they are connected and registered, their status will be listed as “hosted”: https://atlas.ripe.net/ambassadors/probes/ Thank you again for helping us build the world’s largest Internet measurement network, and happy distributing! Best regards, Michela (On behalf of the RIPE Atlas Team)

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"Your probe shipped" e-mail: please, ignore!
by Michela Galante 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Hi all, Last night a few e-mails with the subject “Your probe shipped” were sent to you. This was not intentional. We have introduced a new feature which e-mails you when a probe is shipped. Unfortunately this feature also affected past probe applications and sent emails about probes that we have shipped to you in the past. We are working on a fix so that you are not going to receive any such e-mails in the future unless you are really receiving a new probe shipment. As ambassador you won’t receive an individual e-mail per probe shipped but a notification about one shipment only which contains multiple probes. Again our apologies for the inconvenience! Have a nice day! Michela Measurements Community Building RIPE NCC

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