[atlas]DNS records for the probes' internet address

On 02/12/2010 11:17, Tore Anderson wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've got a probe connected to my home broadband connection, which might
> change its WAN address whenever my ISP feels like it should.  I just
> thought it would be a nice feature if the probes had an A record in DNS
> that were automatically updated to match the current external address.
> Like probe-121.atlas.ripe.net or something.  That way I would have a
> hostname I would be sure that points to the WAN address of my CPE
> whenever I want to log on to my home network from somewhere else.

We can see if there is broader interest for this feature and make it an
opt-in (checkbox in the GUI). One thing to be careful about here is that
having all probes in easy to guess hostnames, will make it easy to DoS
part of the infrastructure. Doing it as an opt-in, will make sure that
only the people that want/need this feature will enable it, and if that
is a sufficiently low fraction of total, it makes it unlikely as a DoS
target.

> I would think such a feature would be a small incentive for home
> broadband users to become probe hosts.
> 
> On an unrelated note, the graphs for the probe in question (#121)
> doesn't work, they're all gray, even though the probe is up.

As we speak, probes are upgrading to firmware version 3900, which solves
this problem (see
http://atlas.ripe.net/dynamic/stats/stats.probe_versions.png for overall
status).
In case people still see this problem by the end of the day with
firmware version < 3900 and want to force firmware version 3900 onto
their probes: You can force the upgrade by rebooting (unplugging and
replugging) your probe.

Emile