[atlas] No address in the results when ping or traceroute fail?

On 2013/07/22 16:20 , Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:43:39AM +0200,
>  Philip Homburg <philip.homburg at ripe.net> wrote 
>  a message of 25 lines which said:
>
>> The most likely cause for this is that the probe has no IPv6 default
>> router.
> Well, IMHO, probes without a router should not be eligible for IPv6
> measurements.
Yes, but that will be some future change to the system
>> Probes also report their network configuration but at the moment
>> that is done in a format that is not easy to parse. The next
>> firmware should fix that. Then we can see how to make that
>> information available.
> It would not solve the problem since the probe may renumber between
> the moment you fetch the (semi-static) info and the measurement. And
> it is even worse for probes with multiple addresses. We really need to
> know the adress actually used during the measurement.
>
That is easy. The probe didn't actually send any packets so there is no
point in knowing the source address that wasn't used. :-)

Philip