August 2024 - ripe-atlas - mailman.ripe.net

v1 probe loses connection after a while (and webui needs more love)
by Sulev-Madis Silber 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

i have a old probe here. it's v1 or maybe it was v2. anyway... there were recent updates to system and i had to take everything off power for a few hours. after i put i back and it really is always on here, despite being home. the probe didn't reconnect. i don't have it on pdu. i have never needed it to cycle it before in previous 11 years. taking power off fixed it. now it's down again while on power and network. i went to looked what my atlas vlan does and found probe having both v4 and v6. and looks like it periodically tries to reconnect to ssh, gets reply and then... what happens next? it reports fw issue and trying to reconnect. but what kind of issue suddenly appeared when i have done none of fw changes. it's connection is via fbsd box i have full control over. can somebody check wtf is it and maybe fix it if needed. or maybe it just is too old? it works tho. i'm amazed how long it has been running. before next power cycle, can somebody diagnose it. it seems to connect out well? but just v4 i see. v4 is natted there while v6 is native and routed directly. probe id is 4415 p.s.: new webui tiles are really easy to accidentally mess up with finger on phone screen. never know when you scroll page and when you drag and drop. it's annoying

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Probe #7030 may have specified the wrong location
by Marek Küthe 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

Hello, I noticed the probe #7030 [1] during the measurement #76522525 [2]. It has China as its location. However, the probe itself probably belongs to AS23961 [3]. You can see their locations on their website [4]. However, the probe does not appear to be in China, but in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is listed as an extra country/region in the RIPE NCC Atlas and I think this should be used accordingly so as not to falsify results. Could someone adjust the location? Regards Marek Küthe [1] https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/7030 [2] https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/76522525 [3] https://bgp.tools/as/23961 [4] https://www.misaka.io/services/mc2 -- Marek Küthe m.k(a)mk16.de er/ihm he/him

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REST API: Optional Fields for DNS Measurements
by Richter, Robert 03 Aug '24

03 Aug '24

Dear fellow RIPE Atlases, I am looking for the full definition of all optional field of the RIPE Atlas REST API for creating measurements. Especially the one for creating a DNS measurement. I only find the one defining the required attributes for a DNS measurement. But is there also a list constituting the optional fields? Best regards, Robert

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