[atlas] ripe-atlas Digest, Vol 62, Issue 14

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:00 PM,  <ripe-atlas-request at ripe.net> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:24:25 +0200
> From: Philip Homburg <philip.homburg at ripe.net>
> To: ripe-atlas at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [atlas] probe offline - troubleshooting requested
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> On 2016/10/18 7:46 , Andre Heinrichs wrote:
>> Any ideas what I could try to get the probe reconnected?
>>
>> Just to be complete: Here are the last lines of the SOS history:
>> 62.109.121.35 2016-10-18 05:43:27 A 3h 59m
>> 62.109.121.35 2016-10-18 05:43:27 AAAA 3h 59m
>
> The best thing to try is to reflash the USB stick (i.e. connect the
> probe without USB stick, wait for a out 10 minutes and insert the USB
> stick).
>
> Unfortunately, corruption of the filesystem on the USB stick can result
> in weird behavior, like your probe is showing. SOS works fine but it
> doesn't connect.

Just for the record: the probe works again after I did the USB fix
Philip described. I'm guessing the status tab only showed the hint
about Firewall trouble because that would have been another possible
cause for the symptoms.

Thanks,
Andre