[atlas] [mat-wg] RIPE Atlas testing of reserved IPv4 addresses

On 2021/02/16 19:39 , Randy Bush wrote:
>> I think the answer very much depends on who you ask.
> 
> with my researcher hat on, i am curious yellow.  with a minor concern
> for how much of the lab's resources it would consume.

I just did a small experiment with the probe firmware. Allowing 
240.0.0.0/4 and 0.0.0.0/8 is a two line change. I tested this on V3 and 
V4 probes and on CentOS 7. In all 3 cases, the linux kernel does support 
240.0.0.0/4 and does not support 0.0.0.0/8.

We are not going to releasing new firmware for V1 and V2 (except to 
address security issues).

So this a relatively small change that can go out with a future firmware 
release. Currently the Atlas API also blocks these netblocks. I assume, 
but did not verify, that this will also be a small change.

In short, supporting this request is going to take only a tiny bit of 
time to support.

Philip