Hi,
We will soon be resuming our measurements using the RIPE Atlas
platform.
We've scheduled the traceroutes to one every 18 seconds (a more
uniform distribution than the previous approach of batches of 100
tests every 30 minutes), to address the concerns regarding the load
we put on the system.
We still have about 1,300 target addresses to test, so the total
duration of the measurements is estimated to approx. 7 hours (i.e.,
scheduled to start at 16h00 CET -- with expected finishing time at
around 23h00 CET).
We do apologize for any inconvenience!
For any further comments, inquiries, suggestions etc., do not
hesitate to contact us!
Thank you, best regards,
Andra
On 08/26/2013 10:23 AM, Andra Lutu
wrote:
Dear all,
The culprit for the high number of tests running on the RIPE Atlas
platform would be me.
I do apologize for not sending a notification prior to deploying
the tests, we do understand that we are looking at quite a massive
number of measurements.
We are currently trying to slow down the rhythm of the
traceroutes, in an effort to not be so aggressive.
The purpose of the measurements is to establish the reachability
of the limited-visibility IPv6 prefixes we were able to identify
using the BGP Visibility Scanner.
The measurements are a part of our efforts of enhancing our
understanding on the results of the visibility tool for IPv6
prefixes.
The RIPE Atlas team was kind enough to help us with our research
and allowed us to use the Atlas platform.
For more information about the BGP Visibility project, I kindly
refer you to
http://visibility.it.uc3m.es/
We've previously focused on the visibility of the IPv4 prefixes,
please find a more detailed view on our results in the following
RIPE Labs article:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/andra_lutu/the-bgp-visibility-scanner
For any further inquiries, do not hesitate to contact us!
I do apologize for any distress this might have caused!
For the future, we will try to notify before deploying another
large number of tests!
Thank you, best regards,
Andra