October 2017 - ripe-atlas - mailman.ripe.net

Plan to Implement RIPE Atlas WiFi Measurements
by Robert Kisteleki 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

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

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Probe disconnects
by RIPE 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

Hi, I have a probe ( #22583 ) at home connected via my DSL link, for IPv6 connectivity I use a Hurricane Electric ( tunnelbroker.net ) /48 tunnel. I noticed on the monthly report that my probe is showing lots of short ( 1-2 min) disconnects. But it only seems to happen when the connection address in the probe’s network tab is the IPv6 address. In that case the IPv4 Connection address is empty. If it’s showing the IPv4 the probe stays connected for days ( until the DSL link really disconnects). Is there a way to get the probe to ignore the IPv6 for connection status ? Or to mark it as disconnected when both iPv4 and IPv6 are disconnected ? Best regards, Paul van der Zwan

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Charity IT Pulse :) one more sleep till Bytenight Action for Children 2017
by Colin Johnston 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

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ipv6 ping to root name servers failing?
by Tapio Sokura 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Hello, I noticed a few days ago from the built-in probe graphs that ipv6 pings started to fail to the a-root name server instance serving the probe I host. Now also the j-root serving the probe is dropping pings. Some other instances of the same root servers at the moment are still answering pings. If it is intentional that root name servers are starting to drop pings, something should probably be done to the built-in probe measurements/graphs. Does someone know more about this, will all roots be dropping pings in the future or is this just a Verisign thing (a and j operator)? Tapio

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