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Meaning and the future of the project
by Petr Kutalek 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hello, I have been involved in this project for over 12 years. For the last few weeks I have been wondering what the point of this is. OK, I have given out credits to students for research, though sometimes they do not even say thank you. The firmware on the probes has not changed for years, the front-end except for cosmetic changes also does not go through shocking developments (still the same bugs), new features are not implemented, just discussed (e-mail notifications) etc. So I would actually just like to ask: - How many people are working full time on this project at RIPE? - What is the priority for RIPE? - What is the future? Any realistic plans? Thank you, Petr

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random, but unique ASN probe selection
by Marco Moock 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hello! Is there a way to select random probes for measurements that only one per ASN is being chosen? I'd like to test reachability from different AS and don't like to select multiple probes in the same AS. -- kind regards Marco

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Request RIPE Atlas Credit Donation for Internet Routing Research
by Shihan Lin 04 May '24

04 May '24

Dear RIPE Community, My name is Shihan Lin, a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University. My colleagues and I are working on an Internet research project led by Prof. Xiaowei Yang, and we are using RIPE Atlas probes in our research project. However, we face a credit shortage in our account, so we are writing to humbly request your consideration of a potential credit donation to support our ongoing research efforts. Our research project aims to improve cloud routing. We first need to measure the existing cloud routing performance, so we need to send traceroutes and pings from probes around the world to VMs in multiple regions of three commercial cloud providers. With traceroute results, we can detect clouds’ Points of Presence (PoPs) used by probes to reach the VMs. By discovering the PoPs of a cloud, we can discover alternative paths by selecting different PoPs to enter the cloud and thus improve the routing latency. We finished a part of such measurements and discovered some better alternative paths. However, we need another round of measurement to verify our findings. Specifically, we need to send repeated pings from probes to alternative PoPs to validate that such PoPs consistently offer lower latency. According to our calculation, we need about 50M credits for our remaining measurement. Thus we are wondering whether we could ask for some donations from the RIPE community. We greatly appreciate any assistance you can offer. If it is possible, you can donate it to my RIPE Atlas account LSHZY137 at gmail.com. Thank you very much for your help and great generosity! Our research will be submitted to a networking conference (SIGCOMM, NSDI, or IMC) to share the knowledge with the public. Many Thanks, Shihan Lin

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Possible software probe "farming" on AS47583
by Ben Cartwright-Cox 02 May '24

02 May '24

Hi everybody, While doing some measurement work earlier this weekend I discovered that there are a large amount of probes on AS47583 that look like they are being set up to farm credits. With a suspiciously high amount of purely software probes on the same IP prefix and sequential IPv6 addresses. $ curl -s 'https://stat-ui.stat.ripe.net/data/atlas-probes/data.json?resource=47583' | jq .data.probes[] -c | grep Connected | jq '.address_v4 + " " + .address_v6' | sort "153.92.14.66 2a02:4780:6:c0de::e" "153.92.14.67 2a02:4780:6:c0de::f" "153.92.14.68 2a02:4780:6:c0de::11" "153.92.14.69 2a02:4780:6:c0de::12" "153.92.14.70 2a02:4780:6:c0de::13" "153.92.14.71 2a02:4780:6:c0de::14" "153.92.14.72 2a02:4780:6:c0de::15" "153.92.14.73 2a02:4780:6:c0de::16" "153.92.14.74 2a02:4780:6:c0de::17" "153.92.14.75 2a02:4780:6:c0de::18" "153.92.14.76 2a02:4780:6:c0de::19" "153.92.14.77 2a02:4780:6:c0de::1b" "156.67.223.15 2a02:4780:3:1::2a" "156.67.223.16 2a02:4780:3:1::2b" "156.67.223.29 2a02:4780:3:1::35" "156.67.223.30 2a02:4780:3:1::36" "156.67.223.31 2a02:4780:3:1::37" "156.67.223.36 2a02:4780:3:1::38" "156.67.223.37 2a02:4780:3:1::39" "156.67.223.38 2a02:4780:3:1::3a" "156.67.223.39 2a02:4780:3:1::3b" "156.67.223.40 2a02:4780:3:1::3c" "156.67.223.41 2a02:4780:3:1::3d" "156.67.223.42 2a02:4780:3:1::49" "156.67.75.19 2a02:4780:b:c0de::16" "156.67.75.20 2a02:4780:b:c0de::17" "156.67.75.21 2a02:4780:b:c0de::18" "156.67.75.22 2a02:4780:b:c0de::19" "156.67.75.23 2a02:4780:b:c0de::1a" "156.67.75.24 2a02:4780:b:c0de::1b" "156.67.75.25 2a02:4780:b:c0de::1c" "156.67.75.26 2a02:4780:b:c0de::1d" "156.67.75.27 2a02:4780:b:c0de::1e" "156.67.75.28 2a02:4780:b:c0de::1f" "156.67.75.29 2a02:4780:b:c0de::20" "156.67.75.30 2a02:4780:b:c0de::21" "156.67.75.31 2a02:4780:b:c0de::22" "156.67.75.32 2a02:4780:b:c0de::23" "156.67.75.33 2a02:4780:b:c0de::24" "185.201.11.3 2a02:4780:1::3" "185.224.136.17 2a02:4780:8::12" "185.224.136.18 2a02:4780:8::13" "185.224.136.19 2a02:4780:8::16" "185.224.136.22 2a02:4780:8::1a" "194.5.158.13 2a02:4780:8:b::11" "194.5.158.15 2a02:4780:8:b::12" "194.5.158.16 2a02:4780:8:b::13" "194.5.158.18 2a02:4780:8:b::15" "194.5.158.223 2a02:4780:8:b::f" "194.5.158.226 2a02:4780:8:b::10" "194.5.158.228 2a02:4780:8:b::16" "194.5.158.238 2a02:4780:8:b::14" "212.1.215.106 2a02:4780:1:12::3" "212.1.215.107 2a02:4780:1:12::4" "212.1.215.108 2a02:4780:1:12::5" "212.1.215.109 2a02:4780:1:12::6" "212.1.215.110 2a02:4780:1:12::7" "212.1.215.111 2a02:4780:1:12::8" "212.1.215.112 2a02:4780:1:12::9" "212.1.215.113 2a02:4780:1:12::a" "212.1.215.114 2a02:4780:1:12::b" "212.1.215.115 2a02:4780:1:12::c" "212.1.215.116 2a02:4780:1:12::d" "217.21.86.65 2a02:4780:11:c0de::d" "217.21.86.66 2a02:4780:11:c0de::e" "217.21.86.67 2a02:4780:11:c0de::f" "217.21.86.68 2a02:4780:11:c0de::10" "217.21.86.69 2a02:4780:11:c0de::11" "217.21.86.70 2a02:4780:11:c0de::12" "217.21.86.71 2a02:4780:11:c0de::13" "217.21.86.72 2a02:4780:11:c0de::14" "217.21.86.73 2a02:4780:11:c0de::15" "217.21.86.74 2a02:4780:11:c0de::16" "217.21.86.75 2a02:4780:11:c0de::17" "217.21.86.76 2a02:4780:11:c0de::18" "217.21.86.77 2a02:4780:11:c0de::19" "217.21.86.78 2a02:4780:11:c0de::1a" "217.21.86.79 2a02:4780:11:c0de::1b" "2.57.90.18 2a02:4780:a:c0de::3" "2.57.90.38 2a02:4780:a:c0de::2" "2.57.90.41 2a02:4780:a:c0de::4" "2.57.90.42 2a02:4780:a:c0de::5" "2.57.90.43 2a02:4780:a:c0de::6" "2.57.90.44 2a02:4780:a:c0de::7" "2.57.90.45 2a02:4780:a:c0de::8" "2.57.90.46 2a02:4780:a:c0de::9" "2.57.90.47 2a02:4780:a:c0de::a" "2.57.90.48 2a02:4780:a:c0de::b" "2.57.90.49 2a02:4780:a:c0de::c" "2.57.90.50 2a02:4780:a:c0de::d" "45.128.160.100 2a02:4780:9:c0de::2be" "45.128.160.101 2a02:4780:9:c0de::1ae" "45.128.160.102 2a02:4780:9:c0de::3f" "45.128.160.104 2a02:4780:9:c0de::10a" "45.128.160.108 2a02:4780:9:c0de::3c2" "45.128.160.111 2a02:4780:9:c0de::11f" "45.128.160.112 2a02:4780:9:c0de::38f" "45.128.160.116 2a02:4780:9:c0de::12" "45.128.160.119 2a02:4780:9:c0de::c6" "45.128.160.121 2a02:4780:9:c0de::116" "45.128.160.124 2a02:4780:9:c0de::94" "45.143.83.65 2a02:4780:13:c0de::b" "45.143.83.66 2a02:4780:13:c0de::c" "45.143.83.67 2a02:4780:13:c0de::d" "45.143.83.68 2a02:4780:13:c0de::e" "45.143.83.69 2a02:4780:13:c0de::f" "45.143.83.70 2a02:4780:13:c0de::10" "45.143.83.71 2a02:4780:13:c0de::11" "45.143.83.72 2a02:4780:13:c0de::12" "45.143.83.73 2a02:4780:13:c0de::13" "45.143.83.74 2a02:4780:13:c0de::14" "45.143.83.75 2a02:4780:13:c0de::15" "45.143.83.76 2a02:4780:13:c0de::16" "45.143.83.77 2a02:4780:13:c0de::17" "45.143.83.78 2a02:4780:13:c0de::18" "45.143.83.79 2a02:4780:13:c0de::19" "89.116.146.65 2a02:4780:27:c0de::b" "89.116.146.66 2a02:4780:27:c0de::c" "89.116.146.67 2a02:4780:27:c0de::d" "89.116.146.68 2a02:4780:27:c0de::e" "89.116.146.69 2a02:4780:27:c0de::f" "89.116.146.70 2a02:4780:27:c0de::10" "89.116.146.71 2a02:4780:27:c0de::11" "89.116.146.72 2a02:4780:27:c0de::12" "89.116.146.73 2a02:4780:27:c0de::13" "89.116.146.74 2a02:4780:27:c0de::14" "89.116.146.75 2a02:4780:27:c0de::15" "89.116.146.76 2a02:4780:27:c0de::16" "89.116.146.77 2a02:4780:27:c0de::17" "89.116.146.78 2a02:4780:27:c0de::18" "89.116.146.79 2a02:4780:27:c0de::19" Now while I myself don't particularly care about credit farming on RIPE Atlas (After all RIPE Atlas credit is kind of like Monopoly money), I do care about things becoming biased towards these software probes. For example, when I had selected for a selection of probes in Brazil I ended up with several of these software probes giving me the exact same results. this is not very useful and this has the potential to bias academic measurements, had I not looked at the probe list results this would not have been immediately obvious. Is there an immediate way to report these probes other than this mailing list? I don't know of one and so I'm here :) Cheers Ben

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ICMP error codes in measurement results
by Marco Moock 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Hello! https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/70248021#probes That should display route to dest rejected (ICMPv6 Type 1 Code 6), but only shows Last hop's response(s): `6, 6, 6`. Is it intended to implement that? -- kind regards Marco Send unsolicited bulk mail to 1713939075muell(a)cartoonies.org

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Another research credit request
by Peter Thomassen 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Dear friends of ATLAS, We're conducting a research project [1] involving ATLAS measurements with multiple PQC signing implementations (Falcon, XMSS, Dilithium, Sphincs+) to see how many clients choke, in various scenarios, depending on the response packet properties that come with such responses. The idea is to help inform how good or bad the situation is, and which aspects need further research. We'd like to do a very comprehensive measurement, and expect our measurements to use around 25M credits total. (We currently have 3M.) If anyone is willing to donate the missing amount to this project, that would be very much appreciated! My RIPE account is peter(a)desec.io. Thank you very much for considering and your generosity! Best, Peter [1]: https://nlnet.nl/project/PQ-DNSSEC-Testbench/ -- https://desec.io/

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Banner stacked in latest results of measurement
by Marco Moock 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Hello! When hovering on the ticks/crosses in the success column on the latest results page of a measurement, a banner is being displayed. This banner isn't going away when moving the mouse and a new banner will be place on the old one when hovering another cross/tick and make both unreadable. This happens in Pale Moon and Chromium. Can other confirm this? https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/70021438/#probes See screenshot. -- kind Marco Send unsolicited bulk mail to 1713940405muell(a)cartoonies.org

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Operational work on RIPE Atlas
by Robert Kisteleki 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

Dear all, A heads-up: we are just about to start scheduled maintenance work on RIPE Atlas. During the maintenance we expect scheduling of new measurements will be delayed and searching for measurements will not yield up-to-date information. Regards, Robert

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Request RIPE Atlas Credit for Research
by Rolland 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Hi all, I am sorry to spam this email. My name is Fengyan Han, a master's student at Tsinghua University, China. Recently, my research on RPKI requires conducting a large-scale measurement via RIPE Atlas. I have some credits but still need 50M more credits to carry out my study. unfortunately, time constraints prevent me from earning them myself. Therefore, I am reaching out here to ask for assistance. Is there anyone generous enough to offer me some RIPE Atlas credits (like, 1 million?) My account at RIPE NCC is hfy23(a)mails.tsinghua.edu.cn <>. Many thanks in advance! Regards, Fengyan Han

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New default settings for Atlas measurement form
by Stephen Suess 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

Hello Atlas users, After an analysis of usage patterns in measurement creation, we have rolled out a couple of changes to the defaults in the measurement form (https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/form/): - Under timing, the default is now one-off (instead of periodic as before) - Default probe selection is now 50 random, worldwide probes (instead of 10 as before) We hope you find these useful. Please let us know if you encounter any issues. Thanks! Stephen RIPE Atlas UI

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