Hosting a RIPE Atlas probe on your network

Have you heard about Ripe Atlas project ?
RIPE Atlas
RIPE NCC is running an excellent project called RIPE Atlas from few years. This is one of the largest distributed network measurement projects where thousands of users host small devices called RIPE Atlas Probes on their networks, home connections, data centers etc. These probes do measurement under both public and private category and make that data available publicly for use by network engineers and helps in optimising routing.

These can help other users to run ping, trace route etc from other networks to detect latency, routing issues.

I have been hosting few of these and wanted to check with other users in India if they can host some devices.
It does not have any major requirements and just need USB power, uses 4-5kbps internet for tests and be available online 24/7.

I have 2 devices which I can share at this time.

To setup new device will need your email(invite and account for accessing online tools) and ISP details(ASN) to set it up.

Some more explaining how Ripe Atlas works and can help Network users/teams
RIPE Atlas - Wikipedia
RIPE ATLAS and Benefits of Hosting it in your Indian ISP Network | Mumbai IX Blogs
RIPE Atlas Probe Stats
RIPE Atlas Measurements

 

[JB701]

AAAA is IPv6 DNS records. If it says "Doesnt resolve AAAA" then it means that DNS server you are using is only replying with IPv4 (A Records) Address and not IPv6 Addresses (AAAA). Try "nslookup google.com" to see if you get an IPv6 address. Are you using Excitel's DNS servers? I think Excitel also hijacks DNS. Excitel DNS Server may not be replying with IPv6 Addresses.

It is fine as Excitel doesn't support IPv6 anyways.

 

[opomiyulen]

@JB701 Triple Play supports IP V6,, saw ur probe it has V6 tag and ip. How come ur IP V6 has hurricane ASN.

 

[JB701]

thats just hurricane electric tunnel im using no official IPv6 on either of my rpobes

 

[opomiyulen]

@JB701 U are using this tunnel on ur router

 

[JB701]

yep, pfSense Configuration Recipes — Configuring IPv6 Through A Tunnel Broker Service | pfSense Documentation

its not very fast.. I only use it on Tripleplay Probe. It gives around double credits so thats a bonus

 

[opomiyulen]

ok my connection gone down for few minutes, i don't know its dns issue or something else as on my isp portal it shows ok. Presently connection is working but probe shows offline. I restarted the probe but still same. What could be the issue? How to troubleshoot in these type of cases? Now it shows connected, but was down for 16 minutes. How much time generally a probe takes to reconnect in case of restart or disconnection? @pswapneel or anyone

 

[JB701]

sometimes it takes an hour or more but itll eventually come back up. has happened to me. fucks up the uptime

 

[opomiyulen]

So today again probe shows disconnected. Although internet is up this time. Don't know what is the reason and even don't know how to troubleshoot. If @pswapneel or anyone can comment on this

 

[opomiyulen]

Excitel started resolving ipv6 dns and my probe status changed from can't resolve aaaa to resolve aaaa. Don't know whether its temporary or they are doing something for ip v6. I checked few days back it was not resolving ipv6 dns

C:\Users\opomiyulen>nslookup google.com
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    google.com
Addresses:  2404:6800:4002:80d::200e
          172.217.167.206

 

[JB701]

RIPE has a new UI now.