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"Ripe Atlas > Measurements, Maps and Tools > Tools" web portal not working?
by chris lee 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

Hi, Not sure am I missing something , as all the tools links under https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements-and-tools/tools/ don't seem to be working. It just stays on the same landing page when clicked. Thx, Chris Lee

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Automating software probe creation?
by Steve Gibbard 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

I’m working on creating some Raspberry Pi-based software probes, to put in some networks that currently lack Atlas probes. I’d like to have a standard image that can come up and work wherever an individual probe lands, instead of needing to configure each one separately. As far as I can tell from the documentation, it looks like the probes are identified by the encryption keys in /var/atlas-probe/etc/probe-key* . If creating new probes from an image, is it sufficient to make each probe generate its own encryption keys, or are there other files that need to change? For registering the probes, I see a web form that requires being logged into a RIPE account, and don’t see any equivalent in the API documentation. Is there a way to register new software probes via the API? Thanks, Steve

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Anyone else getting high requests for hitlist-rr6.hitlist.sdstrowes.co.uk
by Anurag Bhatia 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

Hello everyone, There seems to be high regular request on my for hitlist-rr6.hitlist.sdstrowes.co.uk. Anyone else getting the same? Since the DNS fails and it gives SERVFAIL, wondering why it's going on from over a day now. Thanks. -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com

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new website, but outdated information
by Thomas Schäfer 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Hi, https://atlas.ripe.net/resources/announcements/ (Technical Updates) the last version mentioned there is: 4965 Now we are at 5020. same here: https://atlas.ripe.net/resources/source-code/ (except the link to github, that's up to date) https://atlas.ripe.net/resources/code/ Contributed Code on GitHub (https://atlas.ripe.net/github ) link is dead. Regards, Thomas

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Probes suffering DNS interception?
by Ray Bellis 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Is there any RIPE policy about whether nodes that are subject to DNS interception should be excluded from results (or maybe even dropped altogether) ? While these probes are perhaps still useful for ping and traceroute tests, they are effectively useless for DNS related tests other than as a proxy measure for how prevalent that practise actually is. For the visualisation I've just been building based on the Root System's "hostname.bind" data returned by Atlas it was pretty difficult to figure out how to exclude those probes on the client side. If there was a heuristic that could be applied on the probe itself or within the RIPE data collector that tagged the probe as having "bad DNS" that would help a lot. cheers, Ray Bellis Director of DNS Operations, ISC.

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Re: [atlas] Probe operator notifications
by ripe＠brite.cz 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

For this purpose I use an online ping check service. Your probe need to have IPv6 or public IPv4 and ICMP be not blocked by a firewall to be able to respond pings from outside. To be exact, I use http://wedos.online that is run by one of the largest server-hosting company in the Czech Republic. It is free of charge. You can choose how often (1 minute or more) it will ping the probe and how many pings can be lost, then it sends both DOWN and UP notifications (email, Slack, Rocket chat) Cheers Jiri ______________________________________________________________ > Od: "Ponikierski, Grzegorz" <gponikie(a)akamai.com> > Komu: "Edward Lewis" <edlewisjr(a)cox.net>, "ripe-atlas(a)ripe.net" <ripe-atlas(a)ripe.net> > Datum: 11.12.2020 12:16 > Předmět: Re: [atlas] Probe operator notifications > >+1 for 'your probe came back on-line' > >Regards, >Grzegorz > >From: Edward Lewis <edlewisjr(a)cox.net> >Date: Thursday 2020-12-10 at 22:32 >To: "ripe-atlas(a)ripe.net" <ripe-atlas(a)ripe.net> >Cc: Ed Lewis <edlewisjr(a)cox.net> >Subject: [atlas] Probe operator notifications > >(Seeing the thread about DNS intercepted probes reminded me to send this:) > >For 5 or so years running I have a probe operating in my garage (behind my home’s NAT and using the ISP’s NXDOMAIN rewriting, non-DNSSEC handling recursive server) a run-of-the-mill home cable set up. > >When I got my November report, it said I’d been down the last half of November. That was news to me. I then down'd/up’d it and it reconnected and seems to be on-line again. > >I do get the “your probe went off-line” notices. I would like “your probe came back on-line” notices as well. If we had those, I may have noticed it stayed down after the last message I saw. > >Ed > > > > > >

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Credit request
by Konstantin Averkin 04 Dec '20

04 Dec '20

Good afternoon, My name is Konstantin Averkin, and I am a Bachelor student of University of Twente. Currently, I am working on my thesis on resilience of DNS servers. In order to successfully perform the research, I need to do ping and trace route measurements against a series of DNS servers located all around the world. With this email I am writing to ask you to provide 20 million credits to perform measurements with the RIPE Atlas platform. Would that be possible? My account is linked to the same name and address as in this email. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Konstantin Averkin

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List of (scientific) publications using RIPE Atlas
by Moritz Muller 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Hi everyone, A follow up to last week’s Atlas Open House: One of the speakers mentioned that the Wikipedia page of RIPE Atlas [1] lists a number of publications that made use of RIPE Atlas. This list is incomplete and I was wondering if there’s a page somewhere, maybe provided by RIPE NCC, where researchers can submit and list work that used Atlas in some way. This could give beginning researchers and students some inspiration. Maybe this page could also provide links to the measurements themselves for transparency. - Moritz [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIPE_Atlas

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RIPE Atlas outage this evening
by Robert Kisteleki 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, Due to an internal misconfiguration, RIPE Atlas was unavailable between approximately 1:00-9:00 (UTC+1) this morning. This affected the UI, APIs, some internal tasks, and the scheduling of new measurements. Ongoing measurements were not affected. Our team is analysing the root cause and will take steps to prevent this issue from re-occurring. Regards, Robert Kisteleki RIPE NCC

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Today: RIPE Atlas Software Probes Deployathon!
by Vesna Manojlovic 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, We're looking forward to celebrating 10 years of RIPE Atlas by deploying software probes - and there's still time for *you* to join us! We have 120+ registered participants from more than 20 countries, that will get help from RIPE NCC staff, with mentors from the community that speak your language. There are also several ideas for hackathon projects, by more advanced RIPE Atlas community experts. We will be online all day today with sessions scheduled at regular intervals. You can join in for the presentations that interest you, or spend some time in one of the online platforms only open today: * SpatialChat for social interactions & hacking * Two Zoom rooms, for presentations, Q&As and live demo's * Slack for chat and technical / code sharing -------------------------- Zoom Presentations Schedule -------------------------- Living Room (English): 08:00 UTC, 11:00 UTC, 15:00 UTC Sun Room (Russian): 09:00 UTC Sun Room (Spanish): 14:00 UTC The Closing Session will take place in the Living Room: 16:00 UTC The full schedule and access codes are on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/lets-deploy-together-ripe-atlas-softwar… Kind regards, Vesna Manojlovic Community Builder RIPE NCC

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