[atlas]Upgrades today

On 2010.11.10. 9:07, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 2. You can now set the probe's details (geolocation and description) using
>> the butting in the top right corner of the probe status page.
> 
> I'm having a problem with that.  When I enter "Rozendaal", it only knows
> about this place in Zuid Holland, not the one where I live.  I then took
> out my GPS and copied the coordinates from there.  However, the GPS
> gives {N|S|E|W}degrees:minutes:seconds, how do I correctly enter that?
> Third attemp: move the arrow on the map.  However, one can enlarge the
> map but not move it around.  The arrow starts in the wrong place, where I
> live is off the map.

We're using WorldDB (http://code.google.com/p/worlddb/) as a back end for
this. It's a pity if it doesn't know about your town :-) For the time being
you can choose a closeby town. We'll switch to a better geolocation API a
bit later.

In any case, you can move around the pin on the map, and the coordinates
should change accordingly. Let us know (to atlas-dev at ripe.net) if they
don't, so that we can figure out what the problem is.

>> 3. All currently known probes will do an automatic firmware update somewhere
>> in the next 12 hours. (As of now, about one third of them have already done
>> this.) You don't have to do anything about this. The new firmware (version
>> 3820) has:
>> a) the ability to continuously ping the first two "hops" (as in a
>> traceroute) on IPv4;
> 
> OK, so it is now probing the router (192.168.0.1) and firewall (10.0.0.138),
> which isn't very useful (they are in the same cabinet, +/- 1 m apart).  I
> agree that my setup is a bit unusual, but still, I don't think that pinging
> 10.0.0.138 (the default of any adsl modem) is usual.  Would it be an idea
> to exclude 192.168/16 and 10/8 from the ping list?

For now we're doing the first two hops, whatever they are. It' possible that
later on we'll allow hosts to make such exceptions.

Regards,
Robert

> Henk