October 2016 - ripe-atlas - mailman.ripe.net

Shall we continue non-public measurements in RIPE Atlas?
by Mirjam Kuehne 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, "Non-public measurements" is a feature of RIPE Atlas that allows users to use the infrastructure to measure things while not sharing those results with the public. Is that still a useful feature? Should it exist in the future? For more details, see this new post on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/non-public-measurements-in-ripe-atlas Please also take the polls at the end of the article. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Temporary Reduction of Available History on RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat
by Romeo Zwart 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, Today, Tuesday, 18 October 2016, between 09:00 and 10:00 UTC, the back-end storage cluster for RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat will be switched to a backup environment. This is part of planned maintenance work. The backup facility has a more limited amount of storage space, which means that RIPEstat and RIPE Atlas, including specific applications like DNSMON and DomainMon, will not serve data older than one year. We expect this to have no impact on ongoing RIPE Atlas measurements, scheduling new measurements, or the retrieval of more recent data from RIPE Atlas, RIPEstat or DNSMON. We apologise for any inconvenience. Kind regards, Romeo Zwart

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Problems with f.root-servers.net in Russia?
by Marat Khalili 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Sorry for slight offtopic, but does anybody know what is up with Russian instance of F root server? I observe periods of very high packet loss since 11th of October. I used to measure my own internet connectivity pinging it, but seems like by internet works better than that of the root server. Here's a measurement with 50 Russian probes, 34 of them show "Unreachable" right now: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/6886549/#!probes -- -- With Best Regards, Marat Khalili

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Out of date system probe tags
by Chris Amin 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

Dear all, Some of you have noticed that certain system tags (see below) remained applied to probes when they should have been removed. This is because the process that adds and removes these tags was temporarily disabled following the service issues that we experienced earlier in the month. This process has now been re-enabled after verifying that it was not a cause of the service downtime, and these tags have been applied correctly. The affected tags were: * Flaky connection * Firewall problem suspected * DNS problem suspected * No flash drive * Readonly flash drive * Hardware problem suspected Kind regards, Chris Amin RIPE NCC

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Connect/disconnect timestamps on probe page disappeared
by Marat Khalili 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Connect/disconnect timestamps on a probe page like https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/26656/#!tab-network disappeared this morning; durations still shown. Probably some problem with server side scripts? -- -- With Best Regards, Marat Khalili

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firmware download test?
by Yang Yu 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Hi, I have 2 probes that are connected but shown as offline even after several power cycles. I performed USB stick troubleshooting procedures by removing the USB stick and saw NO-USB SOS message. But after inserting the USB stick there wasn't any new SOS messages. Plugged the USB stick to computer and saw corrupted file system. Formatted the stick and inserted it back, still no SOS messages. What kind of filesystem layout is expected on the stick? From what I read the probe should automatically partition/format the stick. Maybe the stick is bad. I do see a good amount of packet loss between the probe's network and the registration server. How robust is the firmware download process (e.g does it abort on TCP RST)? Is there any way to manually load the firmware? Thanks. Yang

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New on RIPE Labs: What Can You Do with One Million RIPE Atlas Credits?
by Mirjam Kuehne 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, Ever wondered what to do with all those RIPE Atlas credits you earned? Find out on RIPE Labs how you can best spend your credits to check your services' connectivity and troubleshoot potential issues. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/what-can-you-do-with-one-million-ripe-a… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Re: [atlas] ripe atlas probe v1 cat sylvester (Colin BT)
by Colin Johnston 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

smaller pic now to so hopefully auto approved :) Managed to raise over 2500 pounds for Byte Night NW (Action for Children) https://www.facebook.com/ByteNight <https://www.facebook.com/ByteNight> contact myself if want to donate Here is Sylvester on Bus to event, sleeping out and on Bus back home. yours Colin Johnston

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Service downtime
by Robert Kisteleki 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hello, We seem to experience a database backend problem, rendering the whole service unavailable. We're busy fixing it and investigating the cause. Ill report on progress as soon as I have more information. Regards, Robert

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ripe.atlas.net issues
by Max Mühlbronner 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

"Oops - this page experienced an error while loading." My atlas / My probe does not work, the checks are failing. (Since ~12 minutes) Please don't tell me that it's maintenance work again, without any announcement? ;) Max M.

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