[atlas] Probe 2092 shown as offline for a month

On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:20:34 +0200
Philip Homburg <philip.homburg at ripe.net> wrote:

> On 2014/08/06 13:51 , David Precious wrote:
> > The DHCP server gives out the IP of my internal gateway/router (a
> > Linux box) as the DNS server to use; that's the box all other
> > devices on my network use, too, so if it had problems I'd certainly
> > have noticed!
> > 
> > Presumably the probe attemptign to connect that one observed time
> > means it resolved that hostname, no?
> 
> I changed something in the probe setting to make it connect even if
> DNS resolving doesn't work. When that takes effect it will be
> possible to figure out what is going on exactly.

I see a connection now.  In digging around more to get more logs of
what's going on, I think I found the culprit: for security, I'd denied
the probe from talking to my home server/gateway (but maintaining
forwarding to elsewhere) as it has no business talking to that box (or
anything else internal).  However - that also stops it doing DNS from
that same box - d'oh!

In other words, looks like I was being an idiot and the problem was at
this end!

Thanks for your assistance - will keep an eye on the Atlas control
panel to see it appear online.



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