On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 6:13 PM Sulev-Madis Silber via ripe-atlas <
[email protected]> wrote:

> last time, when i asked why 4415 is down, i got weird politically correct
> answer. as if somebody looked and found out it's hardware but didn't tell
> anything, not even guessed it
>
> then i got curious. that's not really super secret. probes have been
> reversed before, despite against tos. no aliens found inside. besides,
> there's architecture overview too
>
> i mean, is it new upgrade image not fitting into flash? is it failed
> flash, from writing? is it maybe unreadable flash due regions aren't
> updated for 11y? is it out of ram during upgrade? and it's not connecting
> why? it does some ssh traffic once of while still, constantly. wildguessing
> it's too old ssh client for server
>
> btw, what's probe 3, that's still up too. and what's 1?
>
>
This RIPE Labs article is not new, but has the answer to your question:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/kistel/ripe-atlas-architecture-how-we-manage-our-probes/

This is what I wrote there 7 years ago: "They have certainly lived well
beyond their expected life time." ;-)

Regards,
Robert
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