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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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Representative probe sets in eyeball networks by country
by Bart van der Sloot 21 Jul '21

21 Jul '21

Hi RIPE Atlas community, Can anyone recommend/provide predefined probe sets which provide a fair representation of the eyeball networks in a country, e.g. “10 probes in each of the Top 5 eyeball networks in France” – and preferably probes that are “in” these eyeball networks (and/or close to their interconnection routers – where they peer or connect to their Transit providers, decreasing the dependency on last mile access and in-home networks) and probes that have a high uptime? Thanks in advance for your reactions! Kind regards, Bart van der Sloot Managing Director Leaseweb Network Leaseweb Network B.V. +31 20 316 0237 +31 6 5249 8035 b.vandersloot(a)network.leaseweb.com www.leaseweb.com Hessenbergweg 95, 1101 CX Amsterdam, the Netherlands © Leaseweb Network B.V. and FiberRing, Hessenbergweg 95, 1101 CX Amsterdam, is filed with the Chamber of Commerce under registration nr. 30188570, in the Netherlands. This email including any attachments contains confidential information from us. If you have received this email message in error or unauthorized by us, please immediately notify us by replying, keep the message strictly confidential and immediately delete the email message including all attachments. Leaseweb and FiberRing are the registered trademark under which Leaseweb Network B.V. as separate and independent Leaseweb sales company provides services in a particular geographic area, subject to the FiberRing B2B Sales Terms and Conditions. Please see www.fiberring.com for more information.

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anchor disk recovery
by Matthieu Herrb 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hi, after a power outage, our anchor got its grub.cfg file corrupted. I managed to use a .rpmsave boot.cfg that was present on the disk and boot into the recovery kernel. >From here the anchor is alive again on the management interface at https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/7000/ but I guess it's still in a unstable state. What is the procedure to actually repair the installation ? Should I re-install it from the USB image, or is there something else I can do remotely ? x -- Matthieu Herrb

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Latest data point shown is from 2021-07-16 10:43 UTC
by Thomas Schäfer 19 Jul '21

19 Jul '21

Hi, I run two independent software probes. Looking at the graphs "Built-ins" I get the orange text: "Latest data point shown is from 2021-07-16 10:43 UTC" It only happens on the software probes. My hw probe seems to run without that problem. All three probes are online "Your probe is currently connected" Regards, Thomas

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Removing virtual RIPE Atlas probe
by Milad Afshari 18 Jul '21

18 Jul '21

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well, I am curious to know if there is any way to remove a virtual RIPE Atlas probe from my panel? Sincerely yours; Milad Afshari

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Unable to create measurements in RIPE Atlas
by Salvador Bertenbreiter 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hi guys, I hope you're doing well. I am preparing an article about latency in LATAM and I would like to use RIPE Atlas to gather some data, unfortunately, I'm not being able to create my first measurement, I completed the three first steps: 1) Ping x.x.x.x 2) Selected 10 probes in Peru 3) Choose the time interval But when I click on the Create My Measurement(s) button nothing happens, I don't even receive an error message about a missing or wrong field. Any idea what could be happening? Are you able to create measurements without issues? Thank you Best regards, -- Salvador Bertenbreiter (+51) 947 145 352

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Getting RRSIG records when do bit is set
by pravicha 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Hello, When I set the do bit in dig, I get back RRSIG records associated with the Query Type, but I don’t get the RRSIGs when I create a measurement with do bit set in Ripe Atlas. Can I replicate the same behavior in RIPE atlas? Thanks

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Is there a way to find the resolver used by the probe?
by pravicha 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Hello, I’ve been trying to get dns measurements for a couple of domains over different regions using atlas probes. Is there a way to find the resolver’s IP used by the probes when use_probe_resolver is set to true? Thanks

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Resolves AAAA Correctly, Doesn't Resolve A - best way to resolve this?
by Peter T Garner 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

I've been having a few problems setting up my software probe, but this has now almost stabilised. It's been quite an education in DNS setup! My problem now is that my probe General Information is reporting "Resolves AAAA Correctly, Doesn't Resolve A, IPv4 Stable 1d, IPv4 Works, Software IPv4 RFC1918, IPv4 Capable" but I can't seem to fix the "Doesn't Resolve A" problem: is there anything specific that I can try from the command line to diagnose this? FWIW, all other traceroutes, pings, digs etc on the box seem to be working.

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IPv6-renew
by Marco Davids (IETF) 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Hi, Whenever my network get's a different IPv6-prefix from my provider (which happens every now and then), the probe is flagged down in the dashboard. The reason seems to be that RIPE Atlas probes are unable to renew their (SLAAC?) IPv6-addresses when needed. Only solution is a powercycle. Is this a flaw, or is it by design? -- Marco

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Re: [atlas] IPv6-renew
by Nick Hilliard (INEX) 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Ole Troan wrote on 21/06/2021 11:11: > To be correct; it's an operational issue. SLAAC works as designed with IPv6 renumbering. slaac - being stateless 'n all - was not designed with flash renumbering in mind because flash renumbering needs some degree of state synchronisation on all devices on the path between the provisioning system issuing the prefix and the end device. So in this sense it is a protocol issue, albeit an issue that was outside the design scope of the protocol. > Imagine if the mobile operator swapped your mobile phone number midstream. mobile phone numbers are stateful. You don't need to change phone number every time you're handed off to a different cell. Nick

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Is there a definitive guide to firewall rules?
by Peter Garner (iPad) 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Noob question. I set up a software probe a couple of days ago on a Linux box that uses Universal FireWall (UFW). I've no problem with the required internal ports and the probe seems to be working as intended but would like to know if there's a definitive list of ports and protocols that I can apply to get the maximum benefit to the data?

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My probe (10047) is dead
by Ondrej.Flidr 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Hi Ripe, it looks like my probe is dead. Connection on site is working but probe doesn't seems to be connected. There is flashing orange led on USB dongle. What should I do now? How can I debug it? Best regards, Ondrej Flidr

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DNS probes: spurious SERVFAIL
by Lukas Tribus 30 May '21

30 May '21

Dear list, while troubleshooting DNS issues on the Google network yesterday [1] we found that RIPE Atlas probes did not recover after Google fixed the issue, we kept seeing SERVFAIL answers on the RIPE Atlas probes. We now know that those ATLAS results are bogus. For example google.us against 8.8.4.4 https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/30456676/#probes google.us against 1.1.1.1 https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/30464549/#probes zoom.us against 8.8.8.8 https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/30464774/#probes zoom.us against 1.1.1.1 https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/30464777/#probes amazon.com on quad9 https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/30479180/#probes amazon.com on quad1 https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/30479179/#probes Even amazon.com on quad9 and quad1 has numerous SERVFAIL. To reproduce, just try to resolve zoom.us or google.us against 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 on your probe. Any recommendations on how we could troubleshoot this? [1] https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2021-May/013648.html

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New on RIPE Labs: Deploying a RIPE Atlas Probe Software via PPP
by Alun Davies 17 May '21

17 May '21

Dear colleagues, Want to install a RIPE Atlas software probe, but not sure how to keep it isolated from your private network? In this new guest post on RIPE Labs, Aris Tzermias demonstrates how to do this using a dedicated PPP connection with your Internet Service Provider. https://labs.ripe.net/author/aris-tzermias/deploying-a-ripe-atlas-probe-sof… Kind regards, Alun Davies RIPE Labs Editor RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Surrounded by the Clouds - A Comprehensive Cloud Reachability Study
by Alun Davies 12 May '21

12 May '21

Dear colleagues, Lorenzo Corneo and colleagues recently conducted a comprehensive cloud reachability study to evaluate the suitability of modern cloud environments for latency-sensitive applications. Read about the results of the study now on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/author/lorenzo-corneo/surrounded-by-the-clouds-a-comp… Kind regards, Alun Davies RIPE Labs Editor RIPE NCC

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Result delivery issues - 2021-05-11
by Robert Kisteleki 11 May '21

11 May '21

Dear All, The RIPE Atlas result storage backend started experiencing issues today at around 3am (CEST). The team is working on resolving the issue; we'll provide an update when more information is available. The result streaming feature is not affected, it is still delivering results in real-time. Regards, Robert Kisteleki

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Scheduler adding extra probes for some measurements
by Chris Amin 07 May '21

07 May '21

Dear colleagues, We have fixed a bug in the RIPE Atlas scheduler which caused extra probes to be added to some ongoing measurements. This bug affected many users who submitted "removal" requests using the REST API from 2021-03-23, and in some cases caused a large increase in the consumption of credits due to the extra generated measurement results. This bug has now been fixed, and the affected accounts have been credited with approximately 125% of the erroneous overpayment. My apologies for any inconvenience caused. Please let me know if you have any further questions or issues. Kind regards, Chris Amin RIPE NCC

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Rapidly decreasing credits
by ms 07 May '21

07 May '21

Hi, Recently, looks like since beginning of April, my credits started dropping exponentially. I'm only running a ping measurement at the moment. Any changes to the credit system I missed? Cheers, ms

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research support: credits/limits for DSCP marking measurements
by Stephen Strowes 07 May '21

07 May '21

Hi, One more RIPE Atlas research support request: this time on DSCP marking/bleaching from as many vantage points as possible. This one feeds into the IETF tsvwg, and is pretty applicable to operators in the RIPE community also. In short: they have one target host, and they want to test 3 DSCP codepoints with traceroutes from as many probes as possible. This is not an ongoing study. They'll run a pretty typical traceroute config from as many probes as possible once for each DSCP they're interested in, and they'd like to do it as rapidly as possible. This is simplest as three one-off measurements. Could you: - bump their credit allowance if necessary - bump the number of probes allowed per measurement to some high number; as close to "all probes" as possible? The account they're using is ana(a)erg.abdn.ac.uk <mailto:ana@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Cheers, S. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Can you help perform a large-scale ATLAS measurement campaign? Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 19:48:40 +0100 From: ana(a)netstat.org.uk To: Stephen Strowes <sds(a)ripe.net> Hi Stephen, > Would you like to run (e.g.) thousands of probes to the target with > all DSCP values as rapidly as possible, or would you run multiple > measurements with 1,000 probes each over a longer period? > Thousands of probes as rapidly as possible, but each DSCP is a separate measurement (so 3 separate measurements). I don’t expect to repeat them over a longer period. > > Either way, the credit cost will likely be the same, but the Atlas > folks may need to modify other limits to accommodate the measurements. > Your current account settings should be visible at > https://atlas.ripe.net/atlas/user/ > The only limit that worries me there is: Maximum number of probes per measurement:1,000 It doesn’t look like these measurements will hit the other limits. > Also: Is this email address the one to add credits to? > The account uses email address ana(a)erg.abdn.ac.uk <mailto:ana@erg.abdn.ac.uk>, rather than this one. Thanks again! Ana

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Error for getting measurement results from an api
by Sanaa GHANDI 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hello, I would like to use the Ripe api : /api/v2/measurements/{msm_id}/participation-requests/{source_id}/. for getting measurement results, but I keep getting the following error (in the picture). Here is the website of the different apis: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/api/v2/reference/#!/measurements/Type_0_1_2_3_4… Is it due to my key? Knowing that I have already used it to create measurements and get measurement results and in other apis from Ripe. Concerning the example below, I have checked the measurement ID and that the probe in the source ID figures among the participant probes. I don't quiet see the source of the problem, do you have any ideas about this? Thank you, Cheers, Sanaa

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Satellite based "last mile" and Atlas probes
by Eric Kuhnke 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Hello all, I am running what I believe to be the only probe on a Starlink satellite connection right now: https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/1001821/ Is anyone aware of a list of probe ID numbers which are definitively known to be on some form of satellite-based access technology? I am thinking of, for instance, sites on consumer grade geostationary VSATs, more serious VSATs, or in island nations which are not known to have any submarine cables. The reason why I am searching for such a list is that I intend to consume some of my accumulated credits to run periodic one-off measurements of latency, traceroutes and other things to quantify improvements in satellite based latency and other performance metrics over time. And to quantify what it looks like when an ISP previously dependent on geostationary (min 495ms latency) gains access to either terrestrial/submarine fiber, or a lower latency low earth orbit based service. The best information I can find right now is to manually pick probes which never show below geostationary latency to a first hop in any traceroute, and are located on the probes map in certain island locations. It's a bit more time consuming to manually search for probes in continental locations which are on a VSAT (for instance if anyone knows of a probe on a VSAT terminal in a remote part of Wyoming, USA, let me know...).

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RIPE Atlas CLI tools docker image
by Anurag Bhatia 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Hello everyone, A little while ago I put RIPE Atlas CLI tools docker image based on alpine. - https://hub.docker.com/r/anuragbhatia/ripe-atlas-tools It stores the API keys at ~/.config on the host (and that is mounted inside the container). Dockerfile can be found here <https://github.com/anuragbhatia/ripe-atlas-tools/blob/master/Dockerfile> and one can use it to build image locally if intended to. *Example usage: * docker run --rm -v ~/.config:/root/.config -it anuragbhatia/ripe-atlas-tools ripe-atlas measure traceroute --from-country IN --target he.net One can set an alias in the local shell to make it appear almost like a locally installed setup. E.g on fish: anurag@Anurags-MacBook-Pro ~> alias ripe-atlas='docker run --rm -v ~/.config:/root/.config -it anuragbhatia/ripe-atlas-tools ripe-atlas' anurag@Anurags-MacBook-Pro ~> funcsave ripe-atlas anurag@Anurags-MacBook-Pro ~> Thus the reduces syntax is alias becomes: ripe-atlas measure traceroute --from-country IN --target he.net Please do share if anyone has any feedback. -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com

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