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The probe would still connect but all icmp tests would fail. DNS, mtr, traceroute and ping over TCP would continue to work.
In the future we may want to tag icmp blocked probes so that the API would not even consider them for ICMP tests. This way there would be no impact to user tests.
Edit https://github.com/jsdelivr/globalping/issues/243
Verizon FiOS in some regions interferes with ICMP traceroute.
Whatever the destination, you see only two hops: the home router and the destination.
I had this problem until earlier this year.
UDP traceroute is unaffected though.
You may want to tag such networks too.
On Globalping's Github page there is this statement which caught my eyes: "Our goal is to provide a free and simple API for everyone out there to build interesting networking tools and services."
I fail to see the catch. There is no intention of profits from this project? Something smells weird. Don't get me wrong @jimaek - you got my attention and I like the idea of holding devices plugged-in and connected with the purpose of helping humanity (probably your current target of developers) - but I also know humans are greedy and always want more and more.
Another important point is that I have been running the jsDelivr CDN for 10+ years now, with billions of requests and millions of websites using it. It has never been hacked or impacted by greediness of any kind. It brings me joy to build useful services that people enjoy using and the only problem I want to solve in terms of money is how to break-even.
So cool
I'll post a photo - hopefully I'll have the network closet (just a few devices) completed by then. I just started running CAT6 through the crawlspace under my house last weekend.
Let's try luck :-)
Sorry if this was already answered somewhere, but small question. Let's say in 2059 Globalping ends up shutting down its doors, is the hardware in these probes reusable? Like, would it be possible to flash an OS of my choosing (i.e. raspbian), or would they just be e-waste?
Seems like it's based on NanoPi NEO with fancy case so yeah, it should be possible to do something with this :-)
https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=132
Ah I see, that's nice
I've seen far too many products from now defunct companies just become completely useless because the hardware/software is locked down.
All you have to do is flash a new OS on the sdcard and it will become a normal computer:)
Anyone can do it at any time, but I hope most people won't and will continue running them as probes
I highly appreciate the honesty and for keeping it open source and open hardware. What you might have miscalculated is the human greed in general, because every person wants some incentives, just like every company wants more profits every year.
You are going to make profits from corporations and big players - at least this is what you want and I believe you are right - but what are small players and supporters supposed to get from all this? You have not provided enough information as to why volunteers and general people would:
Don't get me wrong, but to cut to the chase: what's in it for these "volunteers" helping you? There has to be some form incentive or something for early helpers which constitute the foundations or roots of your project. After all: you are asking others to freely and willingly help you in making money while volunteers pay for electricity; don't expect people to not want some small slice from this pie. It's basic historical human greed after all.
The service itself. The more people join the more valuable and useful the platform becomes for everyone. They way I see it its a win-win for everyone involved.
I honestly dont know what you want me to say
Its exactly that, trust. I believe I have enough credibility from my work in the past to deserve some trust. But of course nobody is forced for any reason to join or help. You can always just be a free user, no problem with that.
Also at the moment I am also taking many risks, I am trusting complete strangers as I have spent a lot of money to prepare these packages and ship them to many people. And I hope at least half will still be online next year and maybe even some people will write articles, tweet and promote the project via word of mouth.
The alternative of trust is commercial products like Catchpoint, they do similar things and require zero trust from anyone, you simply pay a lot of money. I could also do that (and did in the past as part of perfops.net), but I don't enjoy doing that. I believe a free and community powered service with an amazing UI and UX can exist and be competitive with the likes of RIPE Atlas and Catchpoint.
There will be a very long time before anyone starts making money. I think you really overestimate how well open source projects get financed. It has been a huge struggle for 10 years to get any kind of financial help at jsDelivr.
The exchange here I believe is obvious:
The users completely optionally can:
I guess @jimaek has sent these gifts already.
Has anyone received one of these to share some pictures and a copy of image file from the operating system within MicroSD?
waiting for mine
he sent an email confirming it had been sent, in the meantime added the docker to some vms on different providers, more than happy to send pics of device and poke around for community interest 
wondering if something like this could be done with smokeping....
Thanks for the giveway.
Congratulations. It seems you're a winner of the giveaway.
@jimaek - could you please share from where you bought the NanoPi Neo and it's case? I am guessing you bought it cheaper in bulk from somewhere, and I also guess the case is made entirely from aluminium with better passive cooling.
In my opinion it should not be hard to assemble and replicate one of these probes.
@default Directly from the company making them. And yes its a metal case which helps with cooling.
And just for clarification, my plan is not to rely on these devices exclusively, I want to focus more on containers. But I understand that many people cant or dont want to run a full PC 24/7 in their homes, so the probes are for them and also have a marketing role.
With a banana Victorinox for scale.
and probe next to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B on top of my tp-link switch that has cables on the other side running on top shelf inside IKEA IVAR cabinet
Photo staged of course - rpi and probe gonna be on side of switch plus little cable management :P
15 minutes later nothing more in logs!
@jimaek is there any heartbeat or anything in logs that I could watch to make sure it's still connected and working not just frozen or shitted itself because connection dropped or something ^.-?
@jimaek thank you, received an email from "Globalping Probe" today, but still didn't receive this box, I'm in China, perhaps need wait longer
If you lose the connection you will see it in the output. So as long as its "stuck" after connecting that means its waiting for measurements. Check your logs now btw
Yeah, I didn't expect for regular post to be that slow. There are people in UK waiting for their packages for 3 weeks now... Yet some users in California got them within 5 days.
@jimaek is the giveaway still open? I had submitter the form a few days ago not sure if I should keep my hopes up for that cute box to come over. 🙃
Yes, I will send everyone who submits a form but it will take a while. If you did it a few days ago then you might have to wait 1-2 months unfortunately.
I don't expect much on this, because I haven't wrote telephone in the details, perhaps it's a little difficult when delivery it, even if the package can arrive here
@jimaek Got my box today. I will post an update in the next days.
I see. Glad to know that. I can wait. Wad hoping this would be something I could tinker during the holidays.
Thanks for the giveaway
Received my package today. Will hopefully be able to set it up this weekend and post some pictures of the (probably) lowend™ setup.
In the meantime I'm running the probe on a few of my servers that I already run Docker on.