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Phase 1 of RIPE Atlas Anchors pilot - report on RIPE Labs
by Vesna Manojlovic 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

Dear community, [apologies for the duplicates] we just published an article on RIPE Labs with the status & features available for the hosts of RIPE Atlas Anchor boxes after the Phase 1: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-anchors-pilot-update-on-phas… Share and enjoy :) Vesna

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UDM destinations also visible in RIPEstat
by Vesna Manojlovic 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi, I just wanted to share one more RIPE Atlas-related feature of RIPEstat: when querying for a IP prefix or AS number, you can now see all the UDMs that terminate in the IP addresses in that ASN or prefix, in the "Activity" tab, called "RIPE Atlas measurements targets". (picture attached) Below is a reminder of the feature to see all the probes, too. Happy measuring! Vesna -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [atlas] Atlas probes visible in RIPEstat Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:11:26 +0100 From: Vesna Manojlovic <BECHA(a)ripe.net> To: RIPE Atlas People <ripe-atlas(a)ripe.net> Dear RIPE Atlas users, this might be of interest to you too -- it is now possible to see coverage of Atlas probes in any ASN, prefix or *country* in RIPEstat! It works both as a widget and as CLI: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/atlas-probes#w.resource=212/12 or whois -h stat.ripe.net AS3333 If you decide to embed this widget somewhere on your page, please do let us know, we like to see our work being used :) More interesting RIPEstat features in the article on RIPELabs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripestat-2012-december-… Cheers, Vesna

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RIPE Atlas Community repository on GitHub
by Vesna Manojlovic 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi everyone, an appropriate pastime for Friday afternoon - playing with GitHub ;-) I initially created https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community/ripe-atlas-community-contrib for the contributions by you (and atlas-dev team) of the small programs, scripts, etc -- for visualizing RIPE Atlas measurements, analysing measurements data, and so on. We already had them listed here: https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/code However, GitHub seems to be *the* place for the community to exchange the code, so I am hoping that this repository will help share and maintain, and produce more code, and make it more useful for the rest of the world. First code in there is the one I inserted, created by Philip Homburg: "probes2kml.py", that shows probes on Google Earth. Please "add" more, or "link" your own contributions to this repository... ... or let me know how I can help to collect more of the RIPE Atlas specific code to this repository: from Wolfgang, Inigo, and others. Share and enjoy :) Regards, Vesna

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Partial downtime over the weekend
by Robert Kisteleki 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

Dear all, On Friday we added the first devices of the upcoming next generation Atlas probes to our production network. Unfortunately, this triggered a bug in our controlling infrastructure, which resulted in some of the probes not being assigned any new measurements. Eventually, the affected probes ran out of measurement tasks. This bug affected about 30% of the probes approximately between Friday 23h and Sunday 12h (UTC). We apologise for any inconveniences this may cause. Regards, Robert Kisteleki RIPE Atlas team

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New release in January, features you asked for...
by Vesna Manojlovic 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Hi, we had a release 2 days ago, maybe you already noticed new features... * REST API -- althou in Beta! https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/rest * New costs for certain measurements: https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/credits & * 20 instead of 19 probes visualized in ping UDMs :) ... and if not, they are listed on RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-january-2013-achievements ... and on the "announcements" page too: https://atlas.ripe.net/announce We are still working on "group access", and few more features are going to be announced to beta-testers soon. Share and enjoy! Regards, Vesna

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2 probes down
by Jan Hugo Prins 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Hello, This morning I got a notification that the probe in my datacentre is down. I checked everything and he looks just fine and is happily doing traffic. Then I noticed that the one behind my home fiber connection is also down, and that the starttime is about the same. Both of them at 6:56 this morning. Also checked that one and he is also doing traffic just fine. Houston, do we hava a problem? -- Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Jan Hugo Prins Infra and Isilon storage consultant E: jprins(a)betterbe.com T: +31-53-4800694 M: +31-6-26358951 S: jhaprins W: www.betterbe.com <http:///www.betterbe.com>

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Thank you for making the 2012 a great year for RIPE Atlas!
by Vesna Manojlovic 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Dear RIPE Atlas community, many thanks for hosting, testing & using RIPE Atlas! We have reached many milestones last year, and are looking forward to new challenges this year. Please see the story of the RIPE Atlas achievements in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-2012-a-year-in-review Regards, Vesna -- Vesna Manojlovic BECHA(a)ripe.net Senior Community Builder @Ms_Measurements for Measurements Tools RIPE NCC http://ripe.net

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Parametrization of UDM requests?
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

It seems that the parameters used for an UDM are the same for all probes. For instance, I would like to do a DNS UDM with a different question for each probe, something like "%p.mydomain.example" where %p would be replaced by the Probe ID. Is it possible? Or do you think it would be a worthwile improvment?

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UI graphs
by nrw＠kaffeeschluerfer.com 10 Jan '13

10 Jan '13

On Tue Jan 8 08:15:44 CET 2013, Florian Bauhaus f.bauhaus at portrix-systems.de wrote: > On 01/07/13 22:57, Olaf Maunz wrote: > > The graphics for the pings seem to have vanished in the UI. At least for my account... > > > > If you open the ping UDM there is (at least for me) an tab that says 'RRDs' and there you have all the graphs. I think Olaf did not refer to the UI of the UDMs, but to the UI of the probes. At least for me as well, the graphs of the statistics started to show no data for a period starting sometime between Jan 5 and Jan 6, 2013. At some point, I got the message that there was some maintenance going on on the Atlas infrastructure side. However, nothing changed with respect to the graphs not showing current data once the maintenance was through. Interestingly, the graphs started showing something again for data collected starting as of about 8 AM UTC this morning. Apart from some interruptions due to my public IP address changing, my probe was considered "up" all the time, and I also saw it running its tests and getting responses to the various probe messages. However I still need to figure out (I am sure it is in the documentation, I just didn't get around to looking for the relevant parts yet) how to access the raw data for recent measurements to see whether that data not being displayed in the graphs was due to the collected data somehow not getting to the Atlas infrastructure for some reason (despite probe being considered up), or whether there was just an issue displaying the collected data. Has anyone else seen similar issues and/or some idea what might have happened? Thanks! Kind regards, Joachim

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[UDM] Cannot select "recursion desired" for DNS
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

When creating a new UDM with DNS (or DNS6), the checkbox "Recursion desired" is greyed and un-selectable. I know that recursion can request more resources from the DNS servers. Is it why it is currently unavailable? It does not seem documented in <https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/udm> which just says: Recursion desired Enable recursion. This is the RD flag described in RFC1035.

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UI graphs
by Olaf Maunz 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

The graphics for the pings seem to have vanished in the UI. At least for my account...

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UDM traceroute from all probes to single destination
by Павел Веселовский 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

Hello, For our study seems necessary to obtain traceroutes (IPv4/v6) from all probes to single destination (probe or IP address). Is it possible to obtain such raw data? -- Thanks in advance & Best Regards -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Pavel Veselovskiy, Samara State Aerospace University, IT engineer Email: vpv(a)ssau.ru Phone: +7 927 686 12 32

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UDM "Do not visualize" button issue
by ripe＠brite.cz 22 Dec '12

22 Dec '12

Hi team, I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but I'm not able to have visual graphs created. No matter if I check or uncheck the "Do not visualize" button, after UDM creation finished the button "Do not visualize" becomes always checked and grayed. Is it possible to get graphs drawed somehow? Thank you, Jiri, probe 2413

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Atlas probes visible in RIPEstat
by Vesna Manojlovic 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Dear RIPE Atlas users, this might be of interest to you too -- it is now possible to see coverage of Atlas probes in any ASN, prefix or *country* in RIPEstat! It works both as a widget and as CLI: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/atlas-probes#w.resource=212/12 or whois -h stat.ripe.net AS3333 If you decide to embed this widget somewhere on your page, please do let us know, we like to see our work being used :) More interesting RIPEstat features in the article on RIPELabs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripestat-2012-december-… Cheers, Vesna

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Updates since the previous "roadmap" announcement: November's features on RIPELabs
by Vesna Manojlovic 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Dear RIPE Atlas community, here's a link to the article about what we implemented & worked on in November (and December): https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-roadmap-november-2012-update Highlights: - higher increase in number of probes & users - Community Pages - blogs covering Atlas (and undressing probes ;-) We are also busy making plans for 2013, and will let you know of them in January. As always, we are looking forward to your comments. Regards, Vesna

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single measurement
by Pelsser Cristel 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Hi, When launching measurements, we can specify a start time, end time and interval. Is it possible to specify that we want a single measurement (for example, a single traceroute from the list of probes to the destination) instead of playing with the start time, end time and interval? Cristel

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IPv4/DNS entry not updated
by Daniel Gomez 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Good Morning everyone, After a DSL restart from my ISP at 2:00, atlas.ripe.net has not updated the IPv4 and with it the DNS. The proble is online but it is listed as down. "dig A p4065.probes.atlas.ripe.net" is showing my IP from yesterday. There is any way to push an "update", in order for the probe to register the right IP ? Greetings, Daniel Gomez

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Two users managing one probe
by Matthäus Wander 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Hi, is it possible to register the same probe by two different users? I would like to give my co-worker full access to a probe in our group LAN. Kind regards, Matt -- Universität Duisburg-Essen Verteilte Systeme Bismarckstr. 90 / BC 316 47057 Duisburg

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New page: RIPE Atlas Community
by Vesna Manojlovic 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Good morning :) Since yesterday, we have a new page that shows the activity of the RIPE Atlas users community: https://atlas.ripe.net/atlas/community We are publishing top-ten hosts of the "Always Up" probes, top-ten UDM users: "Big Spenders" -- people who spend most credits, by doing the most measurements, and the flowing list of new arrivals, with flags of their countries. (Now you can see that there was IETF last week -- Bert gave away 55 probes!) Enjoy your additional few minutes of fame, if you name appears on one of these lists :) We are looking forward to your compliments, and to the further wishes on what else would you like to see here... We will be featuring these top-users in our communication, so expect some more attention from us... Ciao, Vesna

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RIPE Atlas nominated for an ISOC Award
by Vesna Manojlovic 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi guys, a bit of good news and publicity: RIPE Atlas has been nominated for an award by the Netherlands chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC). Please find a short announcement on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-atlas-nominated-fo… Makes me feel proud for being part of it :) Since RIPE Atlas if build with your help - congratulations, well done! Cheers, Vesna

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Re: [atlas] "down" probe resurrection
by Artur Russu 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi Philip, Connected it to my home network, directly to my provider, it has now a public IP address assigned by ISP's dhcp. Powered it from an USB power outlet (it has now 5 V/500 mA). Still reboots... :( What do your logs say? I will leave it like this for 24 hours. I guess that if this setup will still fail we'll have to return the probe to RIPE. Where can I find the procedure of returning a probe? Best Regards, Artur Russu PS Engineer TD / MCN / Mobile Packet Core Orange Moldova S. A. Tel.: +373 22 975381 Tel.: +373 691 98381 E-mail: artur.russu(a)orange.md

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Probe sending DHCP request, not accepting?
by Michael-John Turner 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi My probe arrived late last week and I finally hooked it up late yesterday afternoon. All was working fine until around 3:30am today when I received an automated email to say that my probe was down. I restarted it at around 7:00am when I got up but that didn't help - ever since it's been requesting a new IP every 3-5 seconds but not accepting the offered lease. From my dhcpd logs: Nov 6 07:12:02 dreamland dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff via br0 Nov 6 07:12:02 dreamland dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.248 to aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff via br0 Nov 6 07:12:05 dreamland dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff via br0 Nov 6 07:12:05 dreamland dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.248 to aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff via br0 (where aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff is the correct MAC, I've just redacted it). I've allocated the device a static IP based upon its MAC. Help! :) My probe ID is 3508. -mj -- Michael-John Turner mj(a)mjturner.net <> http://mjturner.net/

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Question on UDMs
by Roman A. aka BasicXP 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello! First of all, I'd like to thank RIPE for such an interesting project, allowing to study the availability of various resources online. I have a question. If I'd like to set up a UDM, that will only be designated for my probe only, will it require credits or using my own probe is "free"? Thank you in advance. _____ Best regards, Roman A. aka BasicXP x12ozmouse(a)ya.ru -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJQk7vQAAoJEBjQX5UpOG9YquQP/RptIW1NbaPdOPczWUTYvjxB ZMRNHWO/VX2RWeYMIRWcoUpqVJSV2f7Sy+55hG6kkkcnWvXb+Do9ro4/MsyXocsD y+AXzgt9zgEaQMtJsgr7gjOttRp4vl9Y9RiQ/NfAV/QMZj6YH0QuoqjhpSLDYs6H bA8rmCAx2RGOTlhEvQTBnwI/K6zO8Cp9psLyQ1hzkQeUqlZbOGtD4AGpBuLOcrGR cHyckfN3Lww83oaecBEU1wjgOgUuHzTQzoJKhU7CLr0h0EeBC60Qd9CD75CW7yUD pAZA3JUHhAsYh4Bw5NDihuRhRqDYfo+Ch63JZvdNxznWgRXPgNjm8dm9BqC3rOM2 /aYo4MnglRke7VqCw9vPkw1IW/aXCfx7OoOt4Vp17dKal5iOS/FT2u58qFkzeLRT Mn90I5EdcEbB+Nuv3GsjYBI94JrrSK2KtcoV235mSTAGYyAM665c3fVR+HkOc9Eu s/msjchT3MBlEini6HVqAqdTFDaCro+mOw53lKzCch8VQSJRTrbHz1S7RgRVK9dB 89E1ij3HhUv6Tz9y3fGvWmNwFCWxgkY0qnB8erlFDcTxBtg/ou+a5oU2Yd6Pa14n HaZfXgzSjpasDSTDzxfLzpG/w7qhAluQgo2Q+fViG8yweVWvCDT9DrvbTEuUrPFq TuxIjj0uFFzfPUZrSTrW =GYfh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New RIPE Atlas features from October, and roadmap for November and beyond
by Vesna Manojlovic 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Dear RIPE Atlas users, I am pleased to announce the whole lot of new things you can do with RIPE Atlas in/since October: - one new map (comparing TCP & UDM DNS measurements) - easier credits administration - and for some of you, we worked together further on Atlas Anchors There's more, with pictures, in the RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-roadmap-october-2012-update We are also announcing many new features till the end of the year, and plans for few months in the future, for example: - more notifications - more APIs - promoting active users etc Please let us know if you want us to increase the priority of some of the ones listed in the article. Regards, and enjoy the measurements, Vesna

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Fwd: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?
by Tore Anderson 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Here's a suggestion for an Atlas experiment and subsequent RIPE Labs article. Do a ping measurement from all the probes to the .0 and .255 address of the same /24, plus to another control address in the same /24, and compare success rates. It's particularly interesting for me as my own personal home page is accessible at 87.238.60.0 at the moment.., Might also be worth checking it out for IPv6 at the same time (at least the case where the last 64 bits are all zeroes). Tore -------- Opprinnelig melding -------- Emne: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Dato: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:07:50 +0000 Fra: Paul Zugnoni <paul.zugnoni(a)jivesoftware.com> Til: nanog(a)nanog.org <nanog(a)nanog.org> Curious whether it's commonplace to find systems that automatically regard .0 and .255 IP addresses (ipv4) as src/dst in packets as traffic that should be considered invalid. When you have a pool of assignable addresses, you should expect to see x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255 in passing traffic (ie. VIP or NAT pool, or subnets larger than /24). Yet I've run into a commercial IP mgmt product and getting reports of M$ ISA proxy that is specifically blocking traffic for an IP ending in .0 or .255. Any experience or recommendations? Besides replace the ISA proxy…. Since it's not mine to replace. Also curious whether there's an RFC recommending against the use of .0 or .255 addresses for this reason.

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