All,

(and hopefully "on topic" for this list)

The RIPE Atlas map of PNG shows 1 connected and 9 abandoned probes:

  https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/results/maps/network-coverage/?filter=Papua+New+Guinea+(pg)#

(you can click on the abandoned legend to show the abandoned probes)

This one is online https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/50365/#tab-network

so there is an opportunity for network measurements (ask if you want credits to run tests and don't have a probe of  your own to earn credits).

These probes are abandoned - but can be reconnected to the network if they can be found:

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/6218/#tab-network <-- Anchor @ Telkom - decommissioned Feb 2020

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/503/#tab-network <-- Original v1 probe

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/50277/#tab-network <-- SILMEA02 down for 23 months

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/32911/#tab-network <-- v3 probe on AS38009

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/32842/#tab-network <-- on AS38009 (Bank of PNG)

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/188/#tab-network <-- v1 gone for a long time (11y)

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/26174/ <-- not publicly visible

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/1087/ <-- not publicly visible

https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/probes/22180/#tab-network <-- v3 down for 19 months

Just wondering if anyone has seen any of these probes - either still connected to the network and firewalled off so they can't get out - or powered off and still serviceable? I recently contacted people I'd distributed probes to and managed to get a handful recovered or reconnected and back in operation.

Equally there are now software probes https://labs.ripe.net/author/alun_davies/ripe-atlas-software-probes/ if people have VM infrastructure where they'd be interested in running an Atlas probe (https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/software-probe/ )

Thanks,

-Brook