July 2024 - ripe-atlas - mailman.ripe.net

RIPE Atlas Anchor Operating System Upgrade
by Paul de Weerd 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Dear colleagues, RIPE Atlas anchors are scheduled for an Operating System (OS) upgrade soon since the current OS will reach its end-of-life on 30 June 2024 [1]. We are currently implementing and testing the necessary changes to support a smooth transition to the new OS without service interruption. Consequently, all live anchors will be upgraded by 31 August 2024. During this period, anchors will run on an outdated OS for a couple of months, but we do not anticipate any security issues here. For the few outward-facing services or lower-level software (such as the kernel) running on anchors, we will provide backports of necessary packages. If needed, we will shut down affected services or the anchor until the upgrade is complete. Due to this upgrade process, we have now paused applications for new anchors. New applications will resume from 15 July 2024 with anchors that will be provisioned with the new OS. If you have any questions please email gii-requests(a)ripe.net. Kind regards, Paul de Weerd RIPE NCC [1] https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/centos-linux-eol

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[atlas]Recent UI changes
by Stephen Suess 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

Hello Atlas Users, We have released several updates to the UI over the past month. Here are some of the highlights: - Measurement overview tab: improved summary info for various measurement types and (in the case of dns) most observed answers filtering - Measurement results tab: multiple, non-modal, resizable traceroute popups, toggles for filtering of no reply and no report items, and better error messaging when there are multiple sub queries If you wish to consult an exhaustive list of changes, you can see everything at https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/releases/website.html We hope you find these changes useful and welcome any feedback or suggestions you have. Kind regards, Stephen Atlas UI

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RIPE Atlas data backend maintenance on 29 July 2024
by Francesco Iannuzzelli 29 Jul '24

29 Jul '24

Dear RIPE Atlas users, On 29 July 2024, between 9:00-18:00 (CEST), we will carry out planned maintenance on the data storage backend of RIPE Atlas. During this time, RIPE Atlas will be available but will serve stale data until work will be completed. Results for existing measurements will still be collected and stored. Measurement scheduling will be available but new measurements will be executed after the maintenance window. Results streaming will continue unaffected. We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause. Best regards, Francesco RIPE Atlas Team

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[atlas]Installing Software Probe
by Milad Afshari 22 Jul '24

22 Jul '24

Dear RIPE Atlas Team, I encountered the following error while trying to download the RIPE Atlas software probe from the RIPE NCC GitHub repository: fatal: remote error: upload-pack: not our ref d72872cc6bb9ed5da47dcf1dc726fd8a36c6058f fatal: Fetched in submodule path 'probe-busybox', but it did not contain d72872cc6bb9ed5da47dcf1dc726fd8a36c6058f. Direct fetching of that commit failed. Can you please assist me with this issue? Kind regards, Milad Afshari

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[atlas]API Not Working
by MARC BOSCH MARTINEZ 21 Jul '24

21 Jul '24

Hi all! Is anyone having problems issuing SSL measurements from the API? Seems that issuing them via the website works fine, but I've been having issues lately with the ones that I created using the API, leading to measurements in which all or most probes state "No Report Available". Best, Marc

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[atlas]results page empty
by Marco Moock 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

Hello! https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/75882685/results If I try to access the results, the page is empty. I tried Pale Moon and MS Edge. In Tor Browser, I can access it. Is something faulty at my side or is that a general problem? -- kind regards Marco

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[atlas]Can not target google.com with periodic measurement
by Malte Tashiro 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

Hi, there seems to be something wrong (?) with the measurement creation process, or maybe some rules have changed? I'm trying to schedule a toy measurement to google.com, however, as soon as I set the timing to periodic, I get the error message: "We do not allow more than 25 concurrent measurements to the same target: google.com" I am not running any measurements at the moment. This behavior is independent of the measurement type (ping, traceroute, SSL) and the number of probes (error appears with one probe requested). It seems to solely be a problem of the timing. So far this message only appears for google.com and 8.8.8.8, other targets work. If I schedule the measurement in the future, I can actually submit it, but get a "Scheduling denied" measurement, for example: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/75418006/details I don't know if this is related, but it seems like somebody is hammering Atlas with a large number of geolocation measurements (500 probes per measurement) and DNS lookups (1 probe) at the moment. In the last hour 5582 measurements were scheduled, which is 1.5 measurements per second! Best, Malte

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New status field in probes API, probe archive API
by Johan ter Beest 13 Jul '24

13 Jul '24

Dear Atlas hosts, A while ago we introduced the option for hosts to write off their probes in case they were sure it was never going to be connected again. For instance if it was broken or lost in the mail, a software probe you only used for testing. etc. This written off status was recorded in the database and we show it on the current probe page but it was not reflected in the probe API or on the probe archive API. Starting today, this will change. There is now a new status ID: 4 in the probe API and after we create the probe archive for today, this will also be visible there. Sometime today we will update the status field on the previously written off probes. This will add roughly 5500 probes to this status and will lower the number of abandoned probes with the same amount. Please let us know if you notice any unexpected behaviour. We hope that this change will make the status of probes more clear to both hosts and users. Happy measuring! Johan ter Beest RIPE Atlas Team

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Request RIPE Atlas Credit Donation
by Nishant Acharya 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

Hello All, I am Nishant, a PhD student at the University of California, Davis—apologies for spamming the mailing list. I am working on a measurement research project that requires longitudinal analysis of Internet exchange points which requires an active traceroute campaign that we plan to do via RIPE Atlas. I have some credits to start the measurement but, I would require around 50 million more credits to complete the measurements. Therefore, I am reaching out for help. It would be great if some of you could offer me some RIPE Atlas credits. My account at RIPE NCC is on this email: nacharya(a)ucdavis.edu Sincerely, Nishant Acharya

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[atlas]New Probes | Angola Cables
by Inacio Jose 09 Jul '24

09 Jul '24

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