[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] New Atlas-Probes connecting to .CN domain

On 2020/04/09 17:07 , Dominic Schallert wrote:
> i just plugged-in a brand new Atlas Probe (id: 55534) based on
> nanopi-neo-plus2
> and the first thing that I saw in my dns logs was the following:
> 
> 
> 2020-04-09 16:27:09Asina.com.cn <http://sina.com.cn>ripeprobe.lanOK
> (forwarded)
> 
> 
> This dns lookup was definitely NOT part of an active measurement.
> Also I haven’t seen / see this domain with any of the older probes.

This is part of measurement '30002'

It is a bit of weird, hacked measurement that measures whether DNS
resolution of a collection of big domain names works.

Philip

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