Good Morning Evgeniy,

Yes, we do indeed have these challenges in Saudi and other some countries for different reasons. I contacted many of the concerned operators and ISPs informing them that they/we can’t do the measurements if the probes are not connected.

I mentioned that our resources are limited, so we truly hope we can get the probes up to do full diagnose and measurements, or else we will have to release the resources that were assigned to them to other projects.

Best Regards,
Chafic





On 30 Apr 2019, at 09:05, Evgeniy S. <eject.in.ua@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear people from RIPE who are involved in Atlas project,

do you have any past experience to get people (who have abandoned probes) notified over email with nice message asking to connect probes back (or return to ambassador for re-distribution)?

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Evgeniy


On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 2:10 AM Amreesh Phokeer <amreesh@afrinic.net> wrote:
Hi Martin,

> On 30 Apr 2019, at 00:39, Martin Levy <martin@cloudflare.com> wrote:
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> How can we fix the "abandoned" part? What part can an ambassador play in order to get abandoned probes back online?

This is what happens when probes are distributed in the wild. In Africa, we have the same problem, now our strategy is to give it to interested collaborators only.

It might be useful to understand the measurement needs of the host, some are interested in bandwidth, others in latency, DNS, etc.
So providing them a probe + some pre-cooked visuals of the state of their network would be a good recipe imo.


Amreesh
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