Presentation by Lia Hestina at APRICOT 2017 on Wednesday, 1 March 2017.

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RIPE Atlas

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Ever Wonder How To…
• Effectively monitor the performance of your
network
• Troubleshoot incidents close to your clients
• Validate your peering strategies
• Plan your content distribution
• Demonstrate performance to your customers

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RIPE Atlas
• RIPE Atlas is a global active measurements
platform
• Probes hosted by volunteers
• Data publicly available
"RIPE Atlas: A Global Internet Measurement
Network" (PDF). Internet Protocol Journal 18.
September 2015. ISSN 1944-1134.

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RIPE Atlas Numbers
•9,000+ probes connected (250 Anchors)
•4,000+ results collected per second
•35,000+ user-defined measurements weekly
• Seven types of UDMs:
ping, traceroute, DNS, SSL, NTP, HTTP, Wifi

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• Collaboration of deployment in APNIC’s
region
- 250 RIPE Atlas
- Sponsor RIPE Atlas Anchors in each economy (14 active)
• Want to host (sponsored) RIPE Atlas Anchor?
- Contact APNIC staff or
- Apply directly to host your own RIPE Atlas Anchor

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RIPE Atlas Coverage

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RIPE Atlas in Vietnam

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RIPE Atlas in Thailand

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RIPE Atlas Anchors in Asia
• Bangladesh - 1
• Bhutan - 1
• Myanmar - 1
• Cambodia - 1
• India - 1
• Indonesia - 2
• Japan - 2
• Maldives - 1
• Mongolia - 1
• Nepal - 1
• Pakistan - 1
• Phillipines - 1
• Singapore - 5
• Sri Lanka - 1
Wish you were here

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RIPEstat Country Statistics
Probe status map Probe status number
• We want more in Vietnam

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Creating a Measurement

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Credit System
• Running your own measurements cost credits
• e.g. a ping costs 10 credits
• Reason: fairness; to avoid overload
• Who gets credits:
RIPE Atlas host
RIPE Atlas
Anchor host
RIPE Atlas
Ambassador
RIPE NCC
Member
Sponsor

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Visualisations
• List of probes:
Sortable by RTT
• Map: Colour-coded by
RTT
• LatencyMON:
Compare multiple
latency trends

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LatencyMON

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View Your Network from the Outside
• Integrate “status checks” with existing
monitoring tools (such as Icinga)
• Uses real-time data streaming
- Server monitoring
- Detecting and visualising outages
- Filtering and re-using measurement results

17. Use Cases

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How RIPE Atlas has been Used
• Using RIPE Atlas to Monitor Game Service
Connectivity
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/annika_wickert/using-ripe-
atlas-to-monitor-game-service-connectivity
• Using RIPE Atlas to Measure Cloud Connectivity
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/jason_read/using-ripe-atlas-
to-measure-cloud-connectivity
• Using RIPE Atlas to Debug Network Connectivity
Problems
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/
using-ripe-atlas-to-debug-network-connectivity-problems

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How RIPE Atlas has been Used
• Internet Access Disruption In Turkey - July 2016
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/internet-access-
disruption-in-turkey
• Operator Level DNS Hijacking
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/babak_farrokhi/operator-
level-dns-redirection

20. IXP Country Jedi
Thailand as Seen by RIPE Atlas

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RIPE Atlas IXP Country Jedi
• Do paths between ASes stay in country?
• Any difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
• How many paths go via local IXP?
• Could adding peers improve reachability?
• Experimental tool
- Feature requests welcome!
- Depends on probe distribution in country

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Methodology
• Trace route mesh between RIPE Atlas probes
• Identifying ASNs in country using RIPEstat
- Using a maximum of two probes per AS
• Identifying IXP and IXP LANs in PeeringDB
http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/ixp-country-
jedi/latest/MU/index.html

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Which Paths go via IXPs in Thailand?

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RIPE Atlas IXP Geo-Path
IPv4 IPv6

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Action for Vietnam
• Deploy more RIPE Atlas probes & Anchor
- To try to improve and monitor connectivity, latency
and reachability
• Talk to each other and peer!
- To keep traffic local
• Register the local IXP in PeeringDB
- Don’t forget to list Peering LAN

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1. Create a RIPE NCC Access account
2. Apply here: https://atlas.ripe.net/apply/ or from local
RIPE Atlas ambassadors:
3. Register your probe: https://atlas.ripe.net/register
4. Plug in your probe
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Hosting a Probe
Philip Smith Matsuzaki Yoshinobu
Anurag Bhatia
APNIC staff
Jon Brewer & many more…!!

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Contact Us
• Mailing list for users: ripe-atlas@ripe.net
• Articles and updates: https://labs.ripe.net/atlas
• Questions and bugs: atlas@ripe.net
• Twitter: @RIPE_Atlas and #RIPEAtlas
• GitHub: https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-
Community
• Roadmap: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/roadmap/

28. Questions
Lia Hestina
@Saltaail