Thank you, Sean.  I didn't get the ticket number through the portal.

I sounds as if this is was expected behavior, maybe just one the wrong node, which puts my mind at ease!

I'll share details directly.

Thank you.



On 9/30/2026 10:41 AM, Sean Mottles wrote:
Hi Andrew,

Apologies for the troubles with your Anchor. The history content is our
decommissioning playbook; though I do see that
pl-szz-as28785.anchors.atlas.ripe.net is online and connected to Atlas, is
there a different Anchor that was powered off in this way? Would you also
mind sharing the ticket numbers with me? Happy to help get your Anchors
back online if they were unnecessarily decommissioned.

Thanks for hosting,
Sean Mottles
RIPE NCC

On Wed, 30 Sept 2026 at 16:18, Andrew Gallo via ripe-atlas <
[email protected]> wrote:

We host an anchor that went offline on Sept 1, 2026.  During
troubleshooting, I noticed the following in root's .bash_history:

ping pl-szz-as28785.anchors.atlas.ripe.net
tail -f /var/log/ansible.log
yum -y update
reboot
cat /etc/redhat-release
dd if=/dev/zero of=$(mount|grep boot|awk '{print $1}')
rm -rf /etc/ /home/ /srv/ /export/
systemctl poweroff

Indeed, the boot partition is corrupted, grub can't identify any
filesystem on it, nor can any other file system tools.

  From the messages, I can see that a named user from RIPE (meaning, it
didn't appear to be an automated login) was logged in at this time.

I opened a ticket in the portal on September 11 and have not received an
update, nor can I open a second ticket on the same node.

Before I begin to reinstall or recover this node, I'd like to know
what's going on.  Has anyone else seen anything like this?





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