Measurements and Statistics

RIPE Atlas Interface Hackathon Results

Vesna Manojlovic

• 16 Jun 2016

• 6 min read

The third RIPE Atlas hackathon took place in Copenhagen the weekend before RIPE 72. In this article, we share the details about the hackathon and a preview of the fourth hackathon.

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Anycast vs. DDoS - Evaluating the November 2015 Root DNS Event

Giovane Moura

• 31 May 2016

• 3 min read

IP anycast has been widely used to replicate services in multiple locations as a way to deliver better performance and resilience. It has been largely employed by CDNs and DNS operators, such as on the root server system. However, there is little evaluation of anycast under stress.

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A Visual Impression of Probe Lifetimes

Philip Homburg

• 25 May 2016

• 3 min read

For a while now, the number of active RIPE Atlas probes has hovered around the 9,400 mark. This means that new probes are being connected at a fast enough rate to replace failing probes, but not enough to grow the network. At the same time, the version 3 probes have problems with their USB sticks. …

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New RIPE Atlas APIs

Suzanne Taylor

• 23 May 2016

• 3 min read

We've updated the RIPE Atlas APIs - and there's a comprehensive new manual to explain how to use them. As a result, the current (version 1) APIs are still available for now, but will be deprecated by the end of the year.

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There is Gold in this Stream - Sifting Through Used RIPE Atlas Traceroute Results

Daniel Karrenberg

• 20 May 2016

• 15 min read

This work demonstrates the value of the results collected by RIPE Atlas independent of the original purpose for collecting them. Using all traceroute results from a particular day as an example, we first show that near real-time analysis of the result stream is feasible. Then we show that this has …

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Pinpointing Delay and Forwarding Anomalies Using RIPE Atlas Built-in Measurements - Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Built-Ins

Romain Fontugne

• 18 May 2016

• 8 min read

Detecting network disruptions is a recurring problem. Clearly locating performance degradation is an important step in debugging and subsequently fixing connectivity issues.

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Using RIPE Atlas to Debug Network Connectivity Problems

Stéphane Bortzmeyer

• 10 May 2016

• 15 min read

This article explains how I use RIPE Atlas probes, the official API and custom scripts to debug network issues.

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Connectivity in the LAC Region

Mirjam Kühne

• 3 May 2016

• 6 min read

Please enjoy this guest post by Agustín Formoso, Software Developer at LACNIC: Regional connectivity is not an easy metric to measure. To do it properly you need measurements generated by multiple vantage points, located in as many places as possible (both geographically and logically). Besides,…

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How Elasticsearch and Kibana Help us Analyse RIPE Atlas Data Logs

Andreas Strikos

• 29 Apr 2016

• 5 min read

RIPE Atlas back-end applications run on more than 40 servers. Each day these machines can produce thousands of application logs of any kind of severity level. In order to be able to track down serious errors, warnings or even unusual behaviour, we decided some time ago to try Elasticsearch as a log…