> On Jan 13, 2015, at 5:28 PM, Daniel Karrenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > sisi, > > <candid> > > ripe atlas was built for monitoring the infrastructure. the direction you are > suggesting bears a significant risk of destroying ripe atlas because we will > be regarded as breaking our agreement with probe hosts and probe hosts will > disconnect their probes. i am opposed to risking ripe atlas for the sake of > the http measurements; specifically meaurements that are bound to make ripe > atlas a target. i am all for doing the work you suggest, but i have to > suggest that you find people willing to cooperate while knowing the > consequences. if we proceed like you suggest we may very well end up with no > useful platform for any purpose.
Perhaps this is a good use-case of having a ‘hosted VM’ type probe? The NLNOG RING is an example of something where it’s a pure full-mesh community but without credits. If there was something like a software probe, i could ask our systems team to deploy one VM per site we have for these purposes, and it could provide this capability with reasonable constraints. - Jared
