Stéphane Bortzmeyer#RIPEduca starts in less than one hour https://www.ripe.net/support/training/ripe-ncc-educa Today, RIPE Atlas probes!
One last coffee and I stand ready.
Soon to start, #RIPEduca. Expect some live-tooting about RIPE Atlas probes, Internet measurements and etc, if the proprietary bloatware Adobe Connect works.
Reminder: RIPE Atlas probes are a distributed network of probes that *you* can use to test Internet connectivity from many (10 000) vantage points https://atlas.ripe.net/
A must for any serious Internet professional.
These probes can do several sort of measurements, requested by users (you and me) : ICMP echo (ping), traceroute (UDP and ICMP), DNS, etc. Here, the current measurements: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/ #RIPEduca
RIPE Atlas is therefore a nice botnet.
RIPE Atlas measurements can be submitted through several means: Web interface, and a nice API (several tools exist to use it). #RIPEduca
Kaveh Ranjbar now reminds us that RIPE Atlas probes have some limitations, to protect the network (no IP address spoofing, no arbitrary packets) and the people who host them (no arbitrary HTTP requests, because it is often monitored by the State or the Corporation). #RIPEduca
ScriptFanix@bortzmeyer et si tu héberge une sonde Atlas, le ripe fait la supervision de ta connexion 😉
Avec même un rapport mensuel.
Avec même un rapport mensuel.
Adobe Connect does not work on Ubuntu and is quite unreliable on Windows. Those modern multimedia tools... #RIPEduca #wasBetterBefore
Rysiekúr (old account)@bortzmeyer Adobe Disconnect.
Now, RIPE Atlas probes and Internet Exchange Points, by Willem Toorop and Emile Aben.
"We will start with the first presentation" #captainObvious
A study of Internet connectivity in Canada
The Canada interconnectivity survey was done by analysis *existing* RIPE Atlas measurements (by default, measurement results are public).
Among the questions: how much of canadian traffic stays inside Canada? Between unicast machines (gov. Web servers for instabce) hosted in Canada? Between a probe in Canada and a anycast DNS server which has instances in Canada?
Usual problems of Internet measurements: traceroute with non-responding routers, routers replying with RFC 1918 (private) IP addresses, geolocation inperfect...
Ping @angristan about the ability of the US to shut down the Internet: some Canada traffic goes through the US.
Result: 64 % of "canadian" traceroutes go through the US. (And these traceroute are often faster, which may be the reason: international links are upgraded more often; another reason is the lack of peering in the country)
Only 29 % of canadian governement sites are hosted in Canada. (And traceroute to them often go through the US.)
Emile Aben presents "IXP Jedi", a measurement of the actual use of Internet Exchange Points (like the France-IX) through RIPE Atlas measurements. Do they really "keep local traffic local"? [Insert picture of a very smiling user]
A limit of all RIPE Atlas measurements, spotted by Emile Aben: probes vs. Internet users is heavily biased. Not enough probes in Africa, for instance (and "too many" in Europe). #RIPEduca
John Shaft (ジョン・シャフト) ✅@bortzmeyer In Asia too : only 15 probes in mainland China (and 28 in Hong Kong), 1 in Mongolia, 5 or 6 in Cambodia, less than 10 in Vietnam...
Example of #Finland: the most common path between two finlandeses probes is inside the country but not crossing an IXP. A minority goes through an IXP.
Example of #France: some FR-FR paths go through the US (and many go to another of the Five Eyes, such as GB) [Remember that Orange does not peer at a public Exchange Point in France]
Soon, the #DNS session at #RIPEduca. Expect no toots, I'm the one doing the talking. https://www.ripe.net/support/training/ripe-ncc-educa/agenda
Resuming #RIPEduca https://www.ripe.net/support/training/ripe-ncc-educa/agenda with the tools to use RIPE Atlas probes. #Internet #measurements
Christopher Amin on RIPE Atlas API https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/api/v2/
"Everything that you post is JSON. Everything that you get is JSON."
"Works in any language"
curl -q https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/measurements (see the measurements) curl -q https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/probes (see the probes) #JSON #RIPEduca
You can also create a new RIPE Atlas measurement (this time, you need an API key and credits) https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/api/v2/manual/measurements/types/index.html It even works with curl -X POST #RIPEduca
Did you know? The RIPE-NCC official tools to work with RIPE Atlas are named, Cousteau, Sagan and Magellan. #RIPEduca
By the way, @Keltounet where is the #GOlang implementation? https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community/ripe-atlas-community-contrib #RIPEduca
Ollivier Robert 🇺🇦😷🌈@bortzmeyer I still need to finish it :(
ZakMcKraken 🕵🥃@bortzmeyer you prefer #xml ? ibm has a solution for you https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9H2Y_6.0.1/com.ibm.dp.xb.doc/json_jsonxconversionexample.html 🙌😅 #JsonX
Massimo Candela about the other RIPE Atlas API (the streaming one) and how to use it.
Demo of LatencyMON at #RIPEduca Here, my blog https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/2060427/?lm2060427.start=1507156110&lm2060427.stop=1507204110&lm2060427.measurements=2060427&lm2060427.groups=2060427-10892,2060427-11334,2060427-11213,2060427-11421,2060427-2195&lm2060427.groups-component=2060427M10892L2060427M11334L2060427M11213L2060427M11421L2060427M2195&lm2060427.groups-type=single-probe,single-probe,single-probe,single-probe,single-probe#!latencymon
And now TracerouteMON https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/9412526/#!tracemon (here to North Korea) #RIPEduca
Don't hesistate to click everywhere on the TraceMON picture : lots of features! #RIPEduca
TODO: play with the RIPE Atlas streaming interface one day. https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/result-streaming/ Seems very cool. #RIPEduca