[atlas] RIPE probes vs OONI probes

Dear all,

as I see guys at OONI do a great job in detecting censorship technical
measures. If someone has no direct access to their backend servers
they support: tor, psiphon, snowflake, etc.

I've tried to set up an atlas software probe in one of the very
censored locations (in fact now none RIPE Atlas probes are running
there) and it fails just because all REGSERVER IPs are blocked.

Whom can I contact at RIPE to assist on this (I think we can find IPs
which are not blocked for this purpose)? My mail to (whom I contacted
earlier last year on this matter) philip.homburg at ripe.net returned me
"not exist" this afternoon.


On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 11:37 AM Sebastian Johansson
<steamruler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From a quick check on the API and the linked test specification, there
> are some things that aren't supported on RIPE probes, like using SNI
> and Host headers that don't match.
>
> But the easy answer is probably that OONI prefers to run their tests
> on OONI probes :)
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 8:23 AM Hank Nussbacher <hank at interall.co.il> wrote:
> >
> > Why couldn't they have used RIPE probes to conduct the analysis:
> > https://labs.ripe.net/author/bassosimone/measuring-encrypted-dns-censorship-using-ooni-probe/
> > Why did they need OONI probes?   What services do OONI probes provide
> > that RIPE probes cannot?
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Hank
> >
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