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Using Atlas for Monitoring of Anycast DNS
by Klaus Darilion 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Hello! I want to restart this old thread and ask for available tools. For our Anycast DNS cloud, I want to measure the "performance", ie the RTT from Atlas probes. 1. Create measurements (I can do that already ;-) 2. Analyze this measurements: - fetch measurement - analyze the probe locations (ie. country, continent) - create reports with average RTT from certain countries and continents This second step I have partly in old scripts using influxdb and grafana dashboard - but that was a proof of concept with bad code. So, before starting coding from the base - are there some available scripts which can do the second part? Is https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe.atlas.sagan still the way to go for measurement processing or are there meanwhile some better/smarter libraries? ie something for php? Thanks Klaus Am 20.11.2014 um 16:32 schrieb Klaus Darilion: > Hi! > > I want to monitor an Anycasted authoritative name server: > - are all nodes responding > - are all nodes in routing > ... > > > So I thought about starting a long term DNS measurement with plenty of > probes and NSID queried. Then, checking the results I should see every > possible NSID if there are for more probes than Anycast-nodes. > > Does anybody have done that (or similar) already and want to share code? > > Can the RIPE Atlas Status Checks be used for such monitoring? > > Thanks > Klaus >

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Probe is offline but shown online
by Andre Heinrichs 19 Jan '20

19 Jan '20

I’ve just discovered my probe #29384 blinking frantically while the website claims it had been online for more than a day (which can’t be true as my DSL had to get a new connection with a different IP). I tried rebooting the probe but all that got me is lower values of Power-Up time in the SOS requests the probe sends every couple of minutes. From what I can guess it looks like something in RIPE ATLAS isn’t working right. Would be great if someone could have a look. TIA, Andre, Who’s trying to get some sleep now.

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Probe stability tags
by Chris Amin 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Dear RIPE Atlas users, Due to an error in our backend systems, the probe stability tags ("system: IPv4 Stable 30d" etc) had been gradually becoming stale over the past three months, meaning that probes were not gaining or losing these tags when they should. This has now been fixed, so probes are once again tagged appropriately. We have improved our internal monitoring so this kind of issue will be noticed more quickly next time. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Kind regards, Chris Amin RIPE NCC

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New RIPE Atlas Terms&Conditions
by Robert Kisteleki 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Dear RIPE Atlas users, We'd like to inform you that a new version of the RIPE Atlas Terms & Conditions has just been published. Most changes in this version are needed for the introduction of "software probes". The new version (3.4) is available at https://atlas.ripe.net/legal/terms-conditions/ and will be effective as of 11 February 2020. Regards, Robert Kisteleki

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Maintenance or incident?
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

% curl https://atlas.ripe.net/ curl: (7) Failed to connect to atlas.ripe.net port 443: Connection refused It started around 1015 UTC.

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A new year's break for the probes
by Robert Kisteleki 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Happy new year to all RIPE Atlas users! It seems we've given a little break to our probes so they can celebrate the new year too ... >From midnight 1 January until approximately noon 2 January there were no built-in measurements running. This is due to an overlooked fact where the built-in measurements had a pre-defined end date of 2020-01-01. The system dutifully observed this date and did not schedule these measurements any more. We fixed this setting on Thursday, 2 January and the system returned to normal operations shortly thereafter. As a consequence, there's a gap in the delivered measurement results for built-in measurements (i.e. IDs < 1 million). Results for the User-Defined Measurements were not affected. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience this can cause. Regards, Robert Kisteleki

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One-off measurements not terminating
by Steve Gibbard 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

Hi Atlas folks, I hope you’re having a good holiday season. Sorry to interrupt it by complaining about issues. On Christmas Eve my time (early Christmas morning your time) there was an Atlas issue where any attempt at reading measurements failed with an HTTP 500 status error. That appears to have gotten fixed on Christmas (a really big thank you to whoever worked on that) but since then it appears that while most of the one-off measurements we’ve created have delivered results very quickly, none of the measurements created since 17:00 UTC on 2019-12-25 have stopped running. As shown in the Atlas portal: 23722197 Traceroute www.globaltraceroute.com (AS13335) Test Traceroute 1 one-off 2019-12-25 22:24 Never 23722089 Traceroute archive.ubuntu.com (AS41231) Test Traceroute 1 one-off 2019-12-25 19:16 Never 23722088 Traceroute sps.prima.com.ar (AS10318) Test Traceroute 1 one-off 2019-12-25 19:14 Never 23721915 Traceroute www.globaltraceroute.com (AS13335) Test Traceroute 1 one-off 2019-12-25 17:00 Never And on for every measurement between then and now. Previously, the typical one-off measurement was listed with start and stop times less than 10 minutes apart. When a user has 100 measurements running concurrently, creation of new measurements fails, which is happening for me now. If somebody could take a look at this, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks, Steve

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Deletion of erroneously scheduled measurements
by Nils Rodday 29 Dec '19

29 Dec '19

Dear Atlas folks, I have accidentially scheduled many faulty measurements via the API and am now looking for a way to remove them in order to minimize unnecessary burden on the Atlas system and not to pollute my account & limits with unnecessary measurements. However, the DELETE statement (AtlasStopRequest) only seems to be able to stop ongoing measurements [1]. I always get the following reply trying to remove any future measurement: {'error': {'detail': 'That measurement cannot be stopped', 'status': 400, 'title': 'Bad Request', 'code': 104}} Also, the AtlasChangeSource & AtlasChangeRequest of Cousteau [2] can only change ongoing experiments (as I wanted to set the probes in each measurement to 1 if I wasn´t allowed to delete any of them). But since they are upcoming, but not ongoing, I could also not alter them. I am also referring to a mailing-list post from October 2013 stating essentially the same problem [3]. Given the significant amount of time that has passed since then I wanted to raise this issue again. Is there any way to delete a measurement that is in the "SPECIFIED" state, which means that it will only be executed in the future? I understand that we might want to avoid deletion of measurements that have already been run in the past in order to allow others to benefit from the results, but why shouldn´t one be allowed to eliminate faulty measurements that have been scheduled by accident in the future? Thanks & a Happy New Year! Kind regards, Nils [1] https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/api/v2/manual/measurements/stop-measurements.ht… [2] https://ripe-atlas-cousteau.readthedocs.io/en/latest/use.html [3] https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2013-October/001058.html

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measurement page broken?
by Dave . 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Hi, I just started 2 measurements like 10 minutes ago but it does seem something broke. https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/23631307/#!probes Same issue here: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/23631303/#!probes I get to see a spinner instead of the results. Thanks, Dave

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Letsencrypt certificates on anchors
by Anand Buddhdev 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, Some time ago, there was discussion on this list about deploying Letsencrypt certificates on anchors. We had said we would investigate the possibility of doing this. We are pleased to report that we have worked out how to do this seamlessly. Early next week, all RIPE Atlas anchors will switch to Letsencrypt certificates. Note that we will re-use the existing keys on the anchors to request the Letsencrypt certificates. The TLSA records of all anchors are pinned to these private keys, and so they will not change. Regards, Anand Buddhdev RIPE NCC

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Anchor VM security
by Rami Al-Dalky 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

Hi, If someone is planning to host a VM anchor, what are the security measures that RIPE Atlas can provide? For example, protecting the VM from being compromised by an attacker. Any information about this is highly appreciated because the plan is host several anchors. Thanks, Rami

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Probes connected to 4G/LTE
by Ponikierski, Grzegorz 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

Hi all! I'm thinking about becoming ambassador to deploy more probes in Poland including rural areas where sometimes the only option to get access to the Internet is 4G/LTE. I'm interested what is your experience with 4G/LTE and Atlas probes. What tags you use to mark them? How stable they are? What RTT you see to first and second hop? Regards, Grzegorz

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Long measurement delays
by Steve Gibbard 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

Hello, Atlas crew, I’ve been seeing delayed query responses to one-off measurements since November 22, with the exception of November 25. For www.globaltraceroute.com, which attempts to get responses for 90 seconds after submitting a query (and is usually fairly successful), this has meant a failure rate of 61% on average for those days, and as high as 83% on one of the days. I haven’t been tracking how long it does take for a response to come in in those cases, but my most recent test measurement, measurement ID 23502037, is still not returning any data an hour and 40 minutes after submission. My request format as a Python string is "https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/measurements/%s/latest/?key=%s" % (measurement_id, key). For these failures I’m receiving an empty list, so it looks like this might be something different than the “synchronizing” issue people were complaining about over the last few weeks. Trying to access that measurement via the Atlas Web UI, if I go to the “latest results” tab I get a spinning progress wheel, seemingly forever. I haven’t been tracking the Atlas “consumption delay” along with the results, so I’m not sure what it’s looked like during most of the failure periods. I checked at the time I submitted measurement 23502037 and it showed as green, although it’s showing as yellow now. Thanks for any help or attention you can provide on this. -Steve

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Measurements "synchronizing"
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

It seems that, today, when querying the API about an existing measurement, I always get: {'id': None, 'name': 'synchronizing'} Which I've never seen. (Measurement #23238335 but it's not the only one.) A recent change? A temporay problem?

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swagger spec 2.0
by av＠ipmn.io 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

Hi, I can't write to the previous post about swagger, so created the new one. I made some tooling auto conversion from 1.2 to 2.0 and a little bit of hand fixing to current spec. It would be nice if anybody could help with getting 2.0 version up to date. Here is what I have for now: https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/akme/ripe-atlas_api_reference/v2.4.0

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Unable to set probe location to Hong Kong
by Ponikierski, Grzegorz 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Hi all! I was wondering why I see more probes in Hong Kong marked as Chinese probes. For test, I tried to set location of my probe to Hong Kong and even if I put location pin on map in the middle of Hong Kong it still ends assigned to China. Are we still able to assign RIPE Atlas probes to Hong Kong? If not, then what about probes which are still assigned to Hong Kong? How to reliably get via API list of probes located in Hong Kong? Should we parse geo coordinates and use 3rd party libraries to figure out where probe is really located? Regards, Grzegorz

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Finding the NSID in the measurement results
by Roger Murray 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Dear colleagues, We have a measurement with the NSID flag set to True: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/23444279/#!general and we are seeing the NSID responses in the web-gui for the measurement: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/23444279/#!probes So far so good, but when we download the raw measurement result data we are not able to locate the NSID information. We would really appreciate any help in finding the NSID in the result information. Thanks in advance, /rog The Swedish Internet Foundation https://internetstiftelsen.se/en/

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Fwd: Probe 2317 is disconnected (home fibre)
by Colin Johnston 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Any idea why went disconnected today, I think came back ok though AS connectivity was ok whilst probe said down though.. Any chance of enhancement to send email once connected again ? Connected (UTC) Connected for Disconnected (UTC) Disconnected for 2019-11-14 12:43:47 2h 13m Still Connected 2019-11-14 12:33:17 0h 0m 2019-11-14 12:33:49 0h 9m 2019-11-14 02:50:45 8h 49m 2019-11-14 11:39:46 0h 53m 2019-11-08 16:42:22 5d 9h 45m 2019-11-14 02:28:01 0h 22m 2019-11-08 13:19:26 3h 15m 2019-11-08 16:34:53 0h 7m 2019-11-05 12:32:57 2d 7h 34m 2019-11-07 20:07:40 17h 11m 2019-10-15 14:58:43 20d 21h 25m 2019-11-05 12:24:08 0h 8m > Begin forwarded message: > > From: RIPE Atlas (no reply) <no-reply(a)ripe.net> > Subject: Probe 2317 is disconnected (home fibre) > Date: 14 November 2019 at 12:00:01 GMT > To: colinj(a)mx5.org.uk > Reply-To: RIPE Atlas (no reply) <no-reply(a)ripe.net> > > Dear colin johnston, > > Your probe 2317 has been disconnected from the RIPE Atlas infrastructure since 2019-11-14 11:39:46 UTC. > > You may be able to learn more about the possible cause from the "Status" tab on your probe's information page: > > https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/2317/#!tab-status > > Probes are tagged with suspected problems every four hours, so if there is nothing listed under the Status tab and your probe has just gone offline, please check back in a few hours, as more information may be available. > > If you need further assistance or have any questions, please contact us at atlas(a)ripe.net. > > Kind regards, > > RIPE Atlas Team > > ********** > This is an automatically generated email from RIPE Atlas. It was sent to you because you asked to be notified if your probe becomes disconnected for more than 10 minutes. If you want to change this, or disable this notification altogether, please go to https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/2317/, and click the "edit" button under "Notifications".

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Request: RIPE Atlas Credits for Lab Course
by Trinh Viet Doan 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hello everyone, I am a PhD student at TUM and would require around 200M credits to perform large-scale measurements for a lab course that we are running with our master students (http://www.cm.in.tum.de/teaching/2019-imarl/ <http://www.cm.in.tum.de/teaching/2019-imarl/>). If you have any credits to share, we would greatly appreciate it! :) Thanks in advance and best regards, Viet

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RIPE Atlas API Swagger 2.0
by av＠ipmn.io 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hey guys, Are there any plans to migrate API spec from swagger 1.2 to 2.0? It will let us use more modern code generators...

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Looking for Atlas credits
by av＠ipmn.io 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

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Latest data point shown is from 2019-08-15 07:05 UTC
by Randy Bush 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

why do a number of my probes, e.g. 4959 and 4981, show all the built-ins as Latest data point shown is from 2019-08-15 07:05 UTC or whatever? randy

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Looking for RIPE Atlas credits
by Nils Rodday 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

Dear RIPE Atlas users, I am a PhD-student and would need RIPE Atlas credits in order to perform large-scale traceroute experiments. If you have credits to share, I would appreciate it. Recipient: nils.rodday(a)unibw.de Thanks. :) Kind regards, Nils

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Credits for Research
by r.sommese＠utwente.nl 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

Dear All, I am Raffaele Sommese, a PhD student at University of Twente. I am running out of credit for my experiment and I need other 20 Million credit. Can anyone help me? My account is: r.sommese(a)utwente.nl Thanks, Raffaele Sommese

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Error: No suitable probes and delayed results
by Moritz Muller 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Hi, In our experiment we’re trying to assign certain probes to a ping measurement but until now we always get the error message "NO SUITABLE PROBES”. According to the documentation, this is a sign that a probe might not have enough resources. However, when I check on the measurement a few hours later I do see results, but its state is still "NO SUITABLE PROBES”. See https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/23016956/#!probes Is that a common problem when selecting certain probes for measurements? Moritz

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