Dear ripe-atlas community, Hope this email finds you in good health... Le jeudi 30 décembre 2021, Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot@xs4all.nl> a écrit :

Hi,

Hi Geert, Thanks for your email, brother!

I have been hosting probes for many years and, judging by the traffic seen, they have seen a fair amount of use, which is good.

Despite being on a "home network", I was able to get a small subnet so the probes could run without NAT state nastyness and all.

Unfortunately, the ISP providing home connectivity is changing. They used to be innovative, offering IPv6, subnet and lots of features. However the mother telco decided that innovation was bad and is changing the service offering, killing innovative services one by one. Today I received notification that the subnet the probes live on, will be de-activated on Jan 11.

Really sad story, brother :'-( ...hope they will revert back after.

I've cancelled my subscription with said ISP on Jan 13 and the house will be on a different ISP

Good decision! yes, end-users desserve good quality of service...even though, they are free to operate their network as they see fit :'-(

then, unfortunately the new ISP is planning to provide subnet service but is in the process of setting things up and cannot provide subnet service today.

...better later, than never.

What is the protocol for signalling "this probe is down and that may be for quite a bit"?

...not sure, there is anyone, or if the system needs to have such a protocol :-/ but you can just add a tag to your RIPE Atlas probe: #isDown

And what is the protocol for signalling "this probe is now on a different topology, is no longer on AS3265 and network performance is different"?

...this too, seems to be automatic task, as the system used to automatically detect the ASN of the AS into which the probe is attached. But, please, don't take my comment for grant...i'm, too, awaiting for a proper responses from the RIPE Atlas team ;-)

(I guess several others will have this question, answers on list please)

...sure, more than one, brother :-) Hope this helps! Good wishes, in JESUS, this last day of 2021! Shalom, --sb.

Geert Jan

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