August 2012 - ripe-atlas - mailman.ripe.net

Announcing RIPE Atlas Anchors, Pilot Phase
by Vesna Manojlovic 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Dear Atlas community, Please find a new article on RIPE Labs describing the details of RIPE Atlas Anchors: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/ripe-atlas-anchors Right now, we are looking for a small number of pilot hosts from the RIPE NCC membership for deployment to begin in October 2012. If you are interested, please contact me or Daniel Karrenberg before the RIPE65. We will be discussing further details at the RIPE meeting. Regards, Vesna Manojlovic -- Vesna Manojlovic BECHA(a)ripe.net Senior Community Builder +31205354444 for Measurements Tools RIPE NCC http://ripe.net

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Operational issue between ~14h-16h UTC
by Robert Kisteleki 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Dear Atlas users, This afternoon our developers deployed an upgrade to the Atlas controlling infrastructure. Unfortunately, the update contained a bug that we did not catch in the test environment. This bug caused all probes to suspend their running UDMs (User Defined Measurements) between approximately 14h-16h (UTC, different probes were affected at different times). After noticing the error we reverted the changes, and resumed all UDMs. Because of this, your UDMs likely have missing data points for this time frame. Obviously, more frequent measurements will have more missing results while less frequent measurements will have less (or even nothing) missing results. "Built-in" measurements (i.e. non-UDMs) have not been affected. Based on this experience, we'll enhance our testing procedure to lower the chance of these kind of errors happening again. Excuses for the inconvenience this issue may have caused. Regards, Robert Kisteleki RIPE NCC

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Two new measurements types, and a new interface (wizard)
by Vesna Manojlovic 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

Dear Atlas community, I am happy to announce DNS & SSL certificate measurements, a new addition to the UDMs, making it in total 4 types of customized measurements you can perform! Please find out the details in the RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/dns-user-defined-measurements-in-ripe-a… In order to make more types of measurements possible, we have also introduced the new web interface: so-called wizard. It has been extensively tested by the beta-testers for two months, and we hope that the rest of the Atlas UDM users will find it handy. The old interface has been deprecated, so the usual link now leads to the new wizard: https://atlas.ripe.net/atlas/udm.html Please let us know what you think, and enjoy the measurements :) If you have a success-story to share, consider giving a presentation at the RIPE65, or writing RIPE Labs article. I am willing to work on this together with you, so do let me know if you need any help. Regards, Vesna

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Static configuration feedback
by Jeroen van der Ham 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Hi, I've noticed that the table on the webpage which displays the status of a probe's static configuration is not working right. If the "Static Enabled" setting is ticked, the "Probe Knows" is automatically ticked as well, *even for probes which are offline*. The feedback this gives is wrong and actually counterproductive. Could this be fixed please? Jeroen.

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Traceroute path consistency
by David Lebrun 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Hi all, I have a suggestion regarding the udp traceroute feature: allowing the user to specify the source port. The motivation for this suggestion is to keep consistent paths between two traceroutes towards the same destination. I understand that the source port is used to discriminate concurrent traceroutes, so perhaps allocating a range for user-defined source ports would do the trick. There is of course the issue of two users selecting the same source port for the same destination but this is very unlikely. Do you think this is feasible ? David

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RIPE Atlas Roadmap: monthly update: August
by Vesna Manojlovic 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Dear Atlas community, (thanks, Inigo ;-) while developing RIPE Atlas, we wish to keep *you* involved and informed. We are maintaining a roadmap of the features we are working on, and with this update we are asking for feedback, so that we can use it as guidance for making further plans. You can find much more details are in the RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-roadmap-august-2012-update Here I only want to copy the plans for next 4-6 weeks, and three months after that, and to repeat the questions from the article: Plans for the next month: * Users can get more flavors of customized measurements: DNS & SSL - new wizard for two new types of measurements, currently beta-tested * Making it possible to download measurements results without having to be logged in - by deploying & enabling API Keys * Making it easier to follow the rate of deployment of probes over time - by updating the graphs that show the distribution and status of probes * Atlas hosts and sponsors can meet developers during RIPE65, Amsterdam - exchange experiences, give feedback and requirements - so developers can adjust priorities Plans for Q4 2012: * Installing Atlas Anchors as new targets for pre-defined measurements - this will offer greater topological diversity for measurements - Atlas Anchors will also become powerful probes, capable of performing more measurements then small probes * In order to remind you if the probe is not plugged in or if it is down - we will add more automatic email notifications of events * We will create Internet Traffic Maps based on Atlas data - maps will illustrate the health (e.g. reachability) of measured networks Questions: - About the current functionality: what do you want us to improve? - About additions to the next release: what are the most-wanted features for each one of them? - And finally, from the less-specific planned functionalities that we will work on three-six months from now: - what do you find most important? - to which one of them shall we give most priority? Thank you for your feedback, have a great summer, and see you soon in Amsterdam, Vesna

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Make more measurements
by Vesna Manojlovic 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Dear Atlas users, for few weeks already it is possible to perform *more* UDMs (User Defined Measurements), since we have increased the limits, and allowed you to spend your well-earned "credits": - you can perform up to 5 measurements simultaneously, - from up to 50 probes, - and you can spend 270,000 credits per day. A reminder of documentation location: - to see your measurements, and schedule a new one: https://atlas.ripe.net/atlas/udm.html - to find out more about UDM functionality: https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/udm You can read much more about Atlas on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/atlas Have a great summer! Vesna

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HTTP UDM?
by Miles McCredie 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Are there any plans to support an HTTP UDM? Thanks -Miles

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Sharing Stats?
by Dan Luedtke 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Hello everyone, what are your opinions on sharing stats from a probe to the public? My idea: I have a public probe and public UDMs running, and I would like to embed the "last 8 hours" graphs into a website where people can see it, even those that do not have access to RIPE Atlas. Do you think it is a good idea to ask for a feature that splits the "Public" checkbox into two ones saying "Public (ATLAS Community)" and "Public (Internet)"? best regards, Dan -- Dan Luedtke http://www.danrl.de

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