[atlas] Probe questions - reporting clearly busticated probe configs?

> On Jan 16, 2019, at 1:18 PM, Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy!
> I've been running a few measurements over the last while and looked at the raw results like:
> 
> [{"dst_name":"2001:4860:4860::8844","error":{"socket":"connect failed Network is unreachable"},"from":"fd84:d527:5183:0:a2f3:c1ff:fec4:63a8","fw":4940,"group_id":18903906,"lts":21,"msm_id":18903906,"msm_name":"Tdig","prb_id":13635,"....
> "from":"2001:db8:4447:0:eade:27ff:fec9:7134","fw":4940,"group_id":18903906,"lts":7,"msm_id":18903906,"msm_name":"Tdig","prb_id":26725,"...]
> 
> I'm curious if/how atlas reports back to probe owners: 
>   "Hey, your ipv6 connectivity is implausible/impossible"
> 
> since, at least for:
>   https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/26725/#!tab-network
> and:
>   https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/13635/#!tab-network
> 
> there's no way their v6 addresses can work... (one is documentation prefix the other is ULA I think?)
> 
> I suppose test requestors should check the ipv6 prefix to see if it's at least plausibly correct until some signal back to the owners can be attempted?

You should be selecting probes with the system-ipv6-works tag

https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/probe-tags/

- jared