[atlas] RIPE Atlas User-Defined Measurements Are Here!

* Ann Barcomb

> We are pleased to announce our first roll-out of user-defined
> measurements (UDM) for RIPE Atlas.  As of today, all hosts and sponsors
> on this mailing list are invited to run custom measurements.  Over the
> coming weeks we will continue to roll out UDM to a wider audience.

Way cool!

Some bugs/issues I noticed:

1) I first entered a traceroute UDM to olapaok.gr (ID 1001613). It got
the description «Traceroute to 87.238.36.36(olapaok.gr)». The I entered
a traceroute6 query to www.vg.no (ID 1001615). However, for some reason
it ended up getting the same description as the first one.

2) One of the probes selected by the traceroute6 measurement (ID 863)
does not have any IPv6 connectivity, if the info popup in the
«Participants for UDM: 1001615» map is to be believed.

3) We host two probes with near-100% uptime. If I understand the
documentation correctly, you get 15 credits per minute of uptime per
probe, which should result in an daily income of ~42000 credits.
However, the daily income is consistently ~14398. (Not that it is a
problem, considering the current usage cap of 15000 credits/day.)

4) It's been half an hour since I submitted the measurements but still
no results (scheduled them as ASAP). It would be nice if results started
coming back a bit quicker - especially if I'm submitting a UDM for the
purpose of debugging some ongoing connectivity problem.

Best regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com