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Firmware Update for RIPE Atlas V1 and V2 Probes
by Alun Davies 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Dear all, We’re currently in the process of deploying a new firmware update for RIPE Atlas V1 and V2 probes. The update provides a fix for a bug that caused around 15% of RIPE Atlas V1 probes to disconnect. As of the time of writing, the update is at approximately 60% deployment. If you’ve been unable to reconnect your RIPE Atlas V1 probe, you can return it to the following address to be fixed. If you’d like the probe to be returned to you afterwards, please let us know. Alternatively, we’d encourage you to apply for a V3 probe. RIPE NCC P.O. Box 10096 1001EB Amsterdam The Netherlands We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all probe hosts for your ongoing efforts in supporting RIPE Atlas. Cheers, Alun Davies RIPE NCC

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Anchors as target hosts for SLA
by Antonio Prado 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

hi, do you think could be a good idea to use Ripe Atlas Anchors as target hosts for measuring respect of SLA terms of an Internet transit? SLA example This Internet transit should meet the following criteria: average round trip delay (echo request, echo reply) toward $NEAREST_ATLAS_ANCHOR should be less than 100ms on a 10k packets stream of pings; packet loss equal or less than 0.02% pros, cons, recommendations? thank you -- antonio

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Surplus RIPE Atlas credit offer
by Dan Jones 31 May '17

31 May '17

I have a large pool of unused credits if anyone needs any transferred to their account. I likely won't be using them so they should go to a good cause. Dan Jones

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Three improvement suggestions
by Michael Oghia 31 May '17

31 May '17

Dear all, I have three suggestions for how to improve the Atlas program: 1. Set up an automatic transfer system? That way, if someone accrues credits they would like to transfer, we can set it up to do so automatically once we hit 1,000,000 credits (think of it as similar to a bank's auto-pay system). 2. A system where, if someone needs extra credits, they can automatically request them to be deducted (with those who opt-in) from someone like myself with unused / extra credits. 3. Email notifications of when we have accrued 1,000,000 credits (my apologies if this is already a feature). I say this because I don't use my credits, so I don't want them to go to waste. It would be much more efficient if someone who needed them could access them any time (assuming I already gave permission for that (opted-in)). Let me know if anyone needs clarification about my suggestions. Best, -Michael __________________ Michael J. Oghia EuroDIG 2017 focal point (WS 11 <http://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/WS_11_2017>) Independent #netgov consultant & editor Belgrade, Serbia Skype: mikeoghia Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/MikeOghia> *|* LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoghia>

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TLS tests with login.live.com
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 29 May '17

29 May '17

TLS tests from the Atlas probes work for me, for every server... *but* login.live.com, for which I always get timeouts (it works with other TLS clients). Measurement #8775150 if someone has an idea...

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Need host with very large ping times
by Marat Khalili 29 May '17

29 May '17

I have an interesting problem: I need some host that doesn't mind being pinged but with several seconds of RTT (that's thousands milliseconds; from Moscow, but it probably doesn't matter). Amazingly, I could not easily find one. I even tried to ping-scan IP ranges of Antarctica, but those hosts that responded did so in fraction of a second. Not much luck with North Korea (mostly down), Taiwan (internet is much better than it used to be) and several other suspect countries. (Though I'm not sure my tests are correct, since firewall processing of such long response times is one of the things I'm trying to find out.) Is it possible to somehow find one using RIPE ATLAS, preferably without ping-scanning whole internet? Would be especially great if it responded to other types of ping beside ICMP. -- With Best Regards, Marat Khalili

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challenges with reproducibility
by Bajpai, Vaibhav 28 May '17

28 May '17

Dear RIPE Atlas / MAT WG -- sorry for cross-posting. A few of us wrote a paper discussing challenges with ‘reproducibility’ of research and certain steps we can take to initiate a cultural change. This paper will appear at the SIGCOMM reproducibility workshop [b]; the paper is now available online [a]. Thought to share it along: [a] http://vaibhavbajpai.com/documents/papers/proceedings/reproducibility-sigco… [b] http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2017/workshop-reproducibility.html -- Vaibhav -------------------------- Vaibhav Bajpai www.vaibhavbajpai.com Postdoctoral Researcher TU Munich, Germany --------------------------

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DNS and recursion
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 27 May '17

27 May '17

API v1 had a field recursion_desired when performing DNS measurements. If I remember correctly (but I cannot find the reference right now), it worked only when querying a specific name server, and not when using the probe's own resolver, to avoid cache snooping. API v2 has instead a set_rd_bit. Documentation <https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/api/v2/reference/#!/measurements/Measurement_Li…> does not indicate its default value. Anyway, my experience with the API is that the RD (Recursion Desired) bit is always set, whether with 'set_rd_bit': False or with 'set_rd_bit': True, and independant of use_probe_resolver. I can understand this choice for privacy reasons (RFC 7626, section 2.3). But, in that case, the documentation should be fixed. Anything I missed? (Here, a request by a probe, the + after the Query ID - here, 52379 - means the RD bit is set 12:22:23.170304 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 2287, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 65) 192.168.2.8.45955 > 212.27.40.240.53: [udp sum ok] 52379+ AAAA? uucp.bortzmeyer.org. (37)

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DNS measurement
by Stanish Stanishev 25 May '17

25 May '17

Hello, I am having troubles running a a DNS measurement against our DNS cache servers. I get Error: Timeout: 5000 every time I run such measurement. Please see measurement ID #8771668 for example. In this measurement I've selected the two anchors (ids 6262 and 6263) hosted by us (Vivacom) as the source and the target is one of our DNS cache servers - 212.39.90.42. There is no firewalls or other preventing our anchors from reaching the 212.39.90.42 and also the DNS cache server running on 212.39.90.42 is configured to serve queries from Anchors' IPs. What am I doing wrong ? Thanks, Stanish Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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RIPE Atlas V1 Probe Issue
by Alun Davies 18 May '17

18 May '17

Hello all, Due to an unfortunate bug in a recently released probe firmware (version 4760), a number of RIPE Atlas V1 probes are not currently able to connect to the network. The bug leads to excessive memory fragmentation which impacts that V1 probes because they have no MMU and only 8 MByte worth of memory. For reasons that are not yet clear, the issue has only affected well below half of the V1 probes. We are working on a new firmware that will correct this issue, but probes that will not connect will need to be returned to the RIPE NCC in order for the fix to be carried out. Once the new firmware is ready, users can either return their V1 probes to us to be fixed, or request a V3 probe instead. Thank you to Wilfred Woeber for reporting this and requesting an update on the current issue with the V1 probes. Cheers, Alun Davies RIPE NCC

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Introducing blitzortung.org Network for Lightning and Thunderstorms in Real Time
by Jean-Michel Pouré 13 May '17

13 May '17

Dear Friends from RIPE community, This is my first post on the forum. I would like to point out to the community the existence of a free community providing a network device for Lightning and Thunderstorms in Real Time: http://blitzortung.org The device works the same as a RIPE probe, except that it collects information about lightning via radio and delivers the information to a central network of computers for data processing. If you are network specialist hosting very expensive network devices, it might be interesting for you to participate in the effort to build a free community and host a Blitzordnung device in your premisses. All information can be found on http://blitzortung.org and BlitzOrdnung forum : http://en.blitzortung.org/forum.php BlitzOrdnung coverage is good in Europe and North America, but BlitzOrdnung needs more devices in Africa/South America/China and Russia. All help is welcome and may save you a lot of money in lightning protection. Kind regards, Kellogs

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Results of the DNS Measurements hackathon - article now published on RIPE Labs
by Vesna Manojlovic 11 May '17

11 May '17

Dear all, in April we held a fifth hackathon. Altho the topic was DNS, most of the projects were using RIPE Atlas data. Therefore, I invite you to check out the hackathon results, follow the links to the code, and enjoy the photos that attempt to transfer some of the atmosphere.. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/results-dns-measurements-hackathon Please do take part: - use the tools/SW and let us know your experiences with it - modify the code & publish it again on GitHub - join our next hackathon - as a host, sponsor, or participant (date & location & topic to be announced soon!) Let me know in person if you are interested; and otherwise, post your comments or questions on the list, greetings from RIPE74, Vesna

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Many timeout-failures for DNS over TCP
by Davey Song(宋林健) 11 May '17

11 May '17

Hi folks, I setup measurements for DNS queries over both TCP and UDP. I found the timeout and failures of TCP is far more than UDP. For example : DNS over TCP: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/8552847/#!probes DNS over UDP: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/8552846/#!probes Is it normal ? I mean is there any special timeout routine/parameters of atlas probes from normal resolver? Best regards, Davey

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TraceMON follow up
by Massimo Candela 10 May '17

10 May '17

As a follow up to my talk at RIPE74 about TraceMON, here a link with some live examples: https://massimo.ripe.net/tracemon/widget/ <https://massimo.ripe.net/tracemon/widget/> Ciao, Massimo

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Are there plans for faster than 1G anchors?
by Bryan Socha 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

We're finding it harder and harder to support the 1G nic interface on the anchors. We'd love to add more but would need a 10g port at minimum (25G or 40G would also work). Are there any plans to update them for networks that can't easily support a 1G nic? Bryan Socha Network Engineer DigitalOcean

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status-check misbehaving
by Georg Kahest 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hello, Am I misunderstanding something or the status-checks are kind of broken: Yesterday i made new measurement: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/8038852/ I noticed some probes werent reaching my ipv6 host, so decided to remove them like you can see from the Probe specifications section. Now when i goto https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/measurements/8038852/status-check/ I can still see the removed probes in status-check page (which contains 17 errors ) in reality if i'm lookin at measurement probe page i should have only two errors. So it seems that status-check isnt updated once probes are removed from a measurement. -- Georg Kahest System Administrator / Süsteemiadministraator Eesti Interneti SA Paldiski mnt 80, 10617 Tallinn Tel 727 1016 www.internet.ee

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Behind the scenes changes to measurement creation
by Chris Amin 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Dear colleagues, Today we deployed behind-the-scenes changes to the measurement creation process, both when using the website and the REST API. These changes should not have any visible effects, with the exception of improvements to the measurement API reference[1] to make it easier to see which options belong to which measurement type. Although we've tested these changes extensively, they are significant so I am sending this mail to ask you to please let us know if you notice any problems or changes when creating measurements. Kind regards, Chris Amin RIPE NCC [1] https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/api/v2/reference/#!/api/Measurement_List_GET

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RIPE Atlas Maintenance Today
by Anand Buddhdev 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Dear colleagues, Today, between 11:15 and 16:00 (UTC+2) we will be performing maintenance on the RIPE Atlas infrastructure. Some probes may disconnect briefly during this time. Kind regards Anand Buddhdev Senior Engineer

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New on RIPE Labs: TraceMON - Network Debugging Made Easy
by Mirjam Kuehne 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

Dear colleagues, TraceMON is a client-side tool for visualising network topology generated by traceroutes reaching one or more targets in a network. It provides a one-click access to a set of information useful during day to day operations. Please find more details on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/massimo_candela/tracemon-traceroute-visualisa… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuhne RIPE NCC

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Problems trying to add a probe to a measurement
by Colin Strutt 07 Apr '17

07 Apr '17

I'm trying to add a probe, by probe number, to an existing, running measurement, using curl, following the example and description on page 84 of the "RIPE Atlas API v2 manual". However, I'm getting an error message that does not clearly point me to the problem, and thus allow me to correct my error. Here's what I'm entering (with the <.> as placeholders, explained below) curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -X POST -d '{"probes":[{"action":"add","requested":1,"type":"probes","value":"<p>"}]}' https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/measurements/<m>/participation-requests/?key=< a> where: <p> is the number of the probe I'm trying to add, and I can access it at https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/<p> <m> is the measurement to which I'm trying to add it - it's a running measurement, and I can access it at https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/<m> <a> is the API key, which is enabled and has "Update an existing measurement" granted The error I get back is: {"error":{"status":400,"code":104,"detail":"JSON parse error - No JSON object could be decoded","title":"Bad Request"}} In case it's relevant, I'm running curl 7.53.1 on Windows 10. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. colin

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ipad air
by mostafa 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

Sent from my iPad

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New on RIPE Labs: Update on First Five Sponsored RIPE Atlas Anchors
by Alun Davies 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

Hello all, We just released a RIPE Labs article giving an update on the RIPE NCC’s campaign to sponsor fifteen RIPE Atlas anchors: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/update-first-five-sponsored-ripe-… <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/update-first-five-sponsored-ripe-…> Best regards, Alun Davies RIPE NCC

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Measuring SCTP and DCCP compatibility
by Felix Konstantin Maurer 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Hi, I'm interested in measuring the support of new transport protocols in consumer routers. As IPv6 does not need rely on NAT anymore, most routers probably only have a firewall for IPv6 traffic. I assume that these firewalls drop traffic they do not understand, but I'm curious to see if it is actually true, or whether we have the possibility to use new transport protocols now. As far as I can see, there are only a limited number of possible measurements possible with Atlas probes. Do you think they could be extended to be more flexible and for example allow measurements using SCTP? Regards Felix

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Cannot understand the daily limit
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

RIPE Atlas just denied me a measurement: "{"error":{"status":400,"code":104,"detail":"Executing this measurement request would violate your maximum daily spending limit of 1000000 credits. Please stop some of your currently running measurements and try again.","title":""}}" I have one permanent measurement, which takes, according to <https://atlas.ripe.net/user/credits/>, 3400 credits/hour (81600/day). Otherwise, I ran only one-off measurements, most taking < 1000 credits. How could I hit a limit of ONE MILLION per day?

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Starting again a stopped custom measurement
by Sylvain Pascou 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Hello, This might seem like a silly question but I've found no way, whether through the Web UI or the POST API, to start a measurement that I have previously accidentally stopped. Is this a problem or simply a not-implemented feature? Sylvain Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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