August 2021 - ripe-atlas - mailman.ripe.net

Requesting Credits for Research
by Alex Gamero-Garrido 29 Jul '23

29 Jul '23

Hi folks, My name is Alexander Gamero-Garrido and I'm a 5th year PhD student at CAIDA, UC San Diego. We're soon launching a large traceroute campaign for research and could use your generous donation of credits. We'll need about 150 million credits, but any partial amount that gets us closer to that goal is welcome and greatly appreciated. My account is agamerog at eng.ucsd.edu Thank you, Alex -- *Alex Gamero-Garrido* *PhD Student, Computer Science* Web: cseweb.ucsd.edu/~agamerog Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) San Diego Supercomputer Center UC San Diego Pronouns: He/Him/His <https://inboxwhenready.org/?utm_campaign=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_sou…> I'm using Inbox When Ready <https://inboxwhenready.org/?utm_campaign=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_sou…> to protect my focus.

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Probe DHCPv6 support
by Aleksi Pirttimaa 19 May '23

19 May '23

Hi! I recently received my v4 probe and I'm very happy with it. But unfortunately it doesn't support DHCPv6. I present a practical reason for implementing a DHCPv6 client on the probe. You see, my ISP doesn't send router advertisements with the prefix for stateless autoconfiguration set, and instead DHCPv6 must be used. I believe their decision could have something to do with the fact that the regulating body here requires ISP's to prevent IP address spoofing in consumer plans. And to meet that requirement my ISP may be using a feature similar to Cisco's IP source guard, where switch ports and/or mac addresses are passively associated to leased ip's or prefixes, breaking SLAAC. Unfortunately they hate letting consumers talk with their engineers so it's difficult to speculate this further. For now, I've put a stateful firewall appliance in front of the probe which provides SLAAC, it works just fine. Do you think a DHCPv6 client should be implemented?

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Is there a procedure to move a software probe to a new device
by Peter Garner (iPad) 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Noob question. I set up my software probe on a Debian 10 box which has quite a few small servers on it. However, I intend to move it onto a Raspberry Pi, so I was wondering if there's a specific procedure to follow to preserve existing settings? Only the internal IP address will change; the external remains the same.

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snmp
by Folkert van Heusden 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hi, Is it possible to do snmp queries? I have a device on the internet. From some ip-adresses snmpwalk returns the whole list (about 6 entries), from some ip-addresses 1 + timeout and from most only a timeout. I would like to figure out what the pattern is. Can ripe atlas assist in that? I checked the user-interface but only found dns, ntp, etc. regards

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Website Login Redirection: Error 404
by Christian Schrötter 28 Aug '21

28 Aug '21

Hi, seems like there's a tiny (but annoying) bug at the new Atlas website. Steps to reproduce: * Logout at RIPE! * Open a private probes page: https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/35732/ * "You do not have permission to access this page. […]" -> click at the hyperlink "LOGGING IN" within the text. Now you're at [1]. Enter your username/password and continue. After that you'll be redirected to [2] – beautiful HTTP error 404 from Nginx. ;-) -- With kind regards, Christian Schrötter [1]: https://access.ripe.net/?originalUrl=https://atlas.ripe.net/login/?next= [2]: https://atlas.ripe.net/login/?next=

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DNS resolution
by Thomas Schäfer 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

Dear atlas team, I have a simple question. After crating a measurement how often the name of the target is resolved? E.g. I want to ping a target with a stable dyndns name, but with changing ip addresses. It seems to me that most probes don't refresh the ip address once the measurement has started, even it is just a daily ping. Regards, Thomas

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New on RIPE Labs: Exploring RIPE Atlas Traceroutes from 2012 to 2019
by Antony Gollan 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

Dear colleagues, In a new article on RIPE Labs, Nevil Brownlee presents an analysis of RIPE Atlas traceroutes for days in 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2019 with full network graphs for each successive half-hour, and develops an algorithm for finding node or edge outages of an hour or more: https://labs.ripe.net/author/nevil/exploring-ripe-atlas-traceroutes-from-20… Kind regards, Antony Gollan Communications Team Leader RIPE NCC

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Upgrade existing Anchor to newer hardware
by Cathal Mooney 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Hi, I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation, and we have several Atlas Anchor's deployed at various locations. Some time ago the Anchor we had in our location in Dallas, US (p6093.probes.atlas.ripe.net) failed due to a hardware failure. We are now attempting to replace the Anchor with new hardware which we have installed. The old device was a v2 Anchor (Soekris), however, and the new device is v3 (PC Engines APU.2E2). Given the newer hardware I expect we will need a different USB image to boot from? Our hope would be to re-use the previous IP addressing and other details so that does not need to change. What might be the best way to approach this? Many thanks, Cathal.

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