[atlas] [ripe.net #1133019] Re: Your RIPE Atlas Probe (ID: 16784) is not connected to our network

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:33:30AM +0200, Daniel Suchy wrote:
> It's surprising, that you can't manage probe remotelly when it isn't
> "connected" (even you can directly reach it on L3). Technically, probe
> runs on Linux, so you can have SSH daemon with restricted IP access
> running here (listenning daemon has minimal performance overhead) - by
> current "behavior" you simply loose any way to diagnose problem - and
> dependence of established tunnel is another layer, which can fail...

This is intentional and welcome.  The probes are not devices that you
talk to, secure against intrusions, etc. - they are satellites that
are part of a measurement system.

(The way the probes signal problems by issueing special DNS requests
could be documented, though :) ).

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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