[atlas] Garbage Measurements

Hello,

On 2013.08.26. 8:52, Peter Koch wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:37:34AM +0200, Philip Homburg wrote:
> 
>> I have no idea what the purpose is of those measurements. But user that
>> created them does get charged for the results. And probes return
>> results. So from that point of view nothing is wrong.
> 
> maybe it's time to compile a filter list to counter reconnaissance of
> thge probes' network vicinity, which I don't think was the stated purpose
> of the Atlas project.
> 
> -Peter

Indeed, we do exclude the "probes' network vicinity", as you called it. At
the moment, this is the exclusion list:

exclude4 = ('PRIVATE', 'RESERVED')
exclude6 = ('LINKLOCAL', 'UNSPECIFIED', 'LOOPBACK', 'MULTICAST')

(The above acronyms are defined in the IPy Python module, see
https://github.com/haypo/python-ipy/blob/master/IPy.py for details.)

Please speak up if you have justification for other networks to be excluded.

Note that it's very difficult to apply the above filters to perfection; a
sophisticated enough user may be able to find ways around it.

Retards,
Robert