[atlas] UDM limit?

> On Sep 18, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Paul Vlaar <pvlaar at afilias.info> wrote:
> 
> On 18/9/14, 12:07 PM, Paul Vlaar wrote:
>> It seems a bit odd to me that I can't do custom measurements on our
>> server because others are already doing some.
> 
> P.S. while I understand this is probably done to protect the server in
> question, I would like to see a better way to deal with this than just a
> "hard stop" at 10 measurements. Perhaps a way to negotiate a higher
> amount of UDMs possible for a given server? As it is now, this feels a
> like a DoS that is very easy to achieve.
> 
> We've been getting more probes up recently, and we even ordered a RIPE
> Atlas Anchor box so that we can do a decent amount of UDMs on our own
> servers, but with this limitation in place, I'm fearing disappointment.

There’s some tricks to work around this.  The easiest is to have a DNS name that points at the IP, or the RIPE folk have been able to adjust the limit in the past.  I have some anycasted IPs I asked them to increase the limit for.

- Jared