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OT(?) SamKnows/EC Test Project
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Maybe this is a tad off-topic, but maybe not... Has anyone been able to get in touch with a human being (over eMail) regarding the participation in their measurement project? Any and all of my attempts till now failed miserably, they just keep sending me reminders to accept their fine print; and I am just about to pull out/unsubscribe. Any input or advice gratefully accepted. Best regards, Wilfried.

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Re: [atlas] OT(?) SamKnows/EC Test Project
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:24:25PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer(a)nic.fr> wrote a message of 13 lines which said: > > Did you receive your SamKnows box already btw? > > No. Two hours after, it arrived :-) http://www.bortzmeyer.org/samknows.html

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Protocol/Technology testing?
by Daniel AJ Sokolov 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hello, Are there any plans to extend the Atlas probe's functionality from simple Pings to more sophisticated testing? For example: Can actual payloads be transferred (http, ftp, SMTP, NNTP etc.) and with which parameters? Is encryption available (https, ssh, starttls, etc.)? Some countries and/or ISPs restrict what users can do. Currently, Iran is inhibiting all encrypted international connection. For the users on the ground this is horrible - no gmail, no yahoo, no online banking, no Tor network - no proivacy! Yet on the Atlas network everything seems to be fine, as pings still work. (However, only one of the six probes is online, the rest has been offline for weeks. And the one that is online was offline for weeks until a few days ago. I'm not sure what the issue is there.) It would be good to know if some protocols are not available in a certain jurisdiction. Of course, such tests could be done at a much lower rate than Pings - some maybe every hour, others every couple of hours. Then again, the probes might not be mighty enough? BR Daniel AJ -- Follow me on twitter @newstik http://twitter.com/newstik

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Probe DNS entry A more useful than AAAA for dynamic IP hosts
by Software Registrations 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hello everybody, I have just received and put in service my probe. This is my first post to the list (I have been monitoring the traffic for a while: none). I wish to take the chance to admire the design and compact packaging ! Great work! Back on topic, for us low-lies with dynamic IP addresses using the probe DNS entry (maybe with a CNAME entry) could be a great way to ensure our Dynamic DNS entries are up to date and our network could be reached from remote. I am running a full IPv6 network receiving a /48 from Hurricane Electric and the probe tend to select (at least in my short experience) the autoconfigure (from MAC) IPv6 address as its Internet Address to use in the DNS record: fabio@atlantic:~$ host -t A pdxxxxx.probes.atlas.ripe.net pd456a699.probes.atlas.ripe.net has no A record fabio@atlantic:~$ host -t AAAA pdxxxxx.probes.atlas.ripe.net pd456a699.probes.atlas.ripe.net has IPv6 address 2001:470:xxxx:2:220:4aff:fee0:xxxx fabio@atlantic:~$ I saw that there are plans (in the FAQ) to add support both for AAAA and A records at the same time but I believe it would be beneficial for users to be able to select which record is generated or have the A record as default while waiting for the support for both to be implemented. Thanks for listening. Fabio

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Re: [atlas] New measurement target suggestion: 6to4 anycast
by Konstantin V Bekreyev 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hello, Please inform me your decision about this interesting matter: >> I'd like to suggest adding to the list of monitored addresses a new one: >> >> 192.88.99.1 - 6to4 anycast IPv4 to IPv6 gateway; >> >> This could provide interesting data on what percentage of networks >> have this address blocked/inaccessible (resulting in broken >> operation of 6to4), and also what is the average latency to the >> closest 6to4 gateway across various countries/regions. >> >> The next step would possibly be the collection of statistics which >> ASes 'see' whose 6to4 gateways, this can be inferred from the AS of >> the traceroute hop that is right before the 192.88.99.1 on the trace. > It seems that there is interest for doing this measurement, so we'll add it to the list -- most likely in January, after the holiday break. Maybe we'll see some interesting results before June 6. Could you add it, please? -- With best regards, Konstantin V Bekreyev (CVB-RIPE) DARS Telecom (AS43782), Ulyanovsk, Russia

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Tweaking RRDs for built-in measurements UPDATE
by Pavel V. Veselovskiy 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hello, For our purposes, we use RRD image generator and get plots from the different probes. We used the recommendations that described on this page: http://atlas.ripe.net/doc/api . We found, that this information is not actual. So we would like to suggest you to update it: • probe ID < 500: zpm01.atlas.ripe.net. • probe ID >= 500 and probe ID < 1000: zpm02.atlas.ripe.net. • probe ID >= 1000 and probe ID < 2000: zpm03.atlas.ripe.net. • probe ID >= 2000 and probe ID < 3000: zpm04.atlas.ripe.net. In addition, it would be nice if the page with the documentation will contain more extensive and detailed information about the API. -- Thanks in advance & Best Regards -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Pavel Veselovskiy Email: pavelveselovskiy(a)gmail.com Phone: +7 927 686 12 32

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Minor spelling error on probe settings popup
by Richard Craven 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hello Looking at http://atlas.ripe.net/atlas/myprobes.html and going to Probe's settings | notifications, it says "if downtime longer then (minutes):" but it should say "if downtime longer than (minutes):" "than", instead of "then". Best wishes

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Transfer graphs
by Roman Mamedov 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Hello, Is there any logic in the placement of the upper two graphs? http://ompldr.org/vY2xhZQ/2012-02-02T155731Z-atlas.png Looks like they were dropped randomly somewhere onto the page, without any concern of how they would fit with the rest of the content. -- With respect, Roman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Stallman had a printer, with code he could not see. So he began to tinker, and set the software free."

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Possible issue with DNS/tests getting stuck?
by Kyriacos Sakkas 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Dear all, I have a statically configured probe, FW version 4270. If the internet connection goes down/flaps the probe seems to get confused and stops communicating (is shown as Down) even when the connection is back up and stable, but can actually be pinged etc from inside and outside my network fine. I have a second probe that is on DHCP (FW 4280) on a different network, this one seems not to have the same issue, don't know which is the important differentiator. Wondering if anyone has similar issues and a solution other than switch it off and on again. Thanks to All, Kyriacos

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Survey results on Atlas open-sourcing
by Richard L. Barnes 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

The brief survey I put out a couple weeks ago has gotten 34 responses. The response rate seems to be tailing off, so I've closed the survey. Here's a summary of results. First, the simple things: -- All but one respondent is an Atlas probe host. -- Respondents preferred source to binary release 26:4 (4 abstentions) The responses as to reasons for wanting the Atlas platform opened up are a little more challenging to read. There were four options that respondents, from which respondents could choose as many as they wanted. 0 - I'm not interested in RIPE NCC releasing the Atlas firmware 1 - So that parties other than RIPE to build probes that can feed into the Atlas system 2 - So that I can easily build Atlas-like probes for my own, independent measurement network 3 - So that I can re-use some Atlas features for a non-measurement-related purpose The response patterns, ordered by frequency Pattern Frequency 1 8 2+3 6 0 5 1+2 3 1+2+3 3 2 3 3 1 (who noted: "I don't care too much") Respondents could also fill in an "other" response for their reason. There were two major themes to these responses: -- Security, in the sense both of making the device more secure, and of assuring probe hosts of what the device is doing -- Contributions, i.e., that the community could contribute to probe development One respondent also noted in an "other" response that responses 1 and 2 are not necessarily mutually exclusive; a modified probe could feed both the RIPE system and a private system. Analyze as you will :) --Richard

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