[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Question of high availability for atlas via different ASNs

On 2017/07/20 19:55 , Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> Greetings from India. I am hosting RIPE Atlas probe at home for a while.
> I have two connections - primary which is high capacity symmetric link
> and secondary which is a low-end cable broadband connection. The core
> router is Ubnt edge router and it runs "load balancing" to keep primary
> link as primary and switch to secondary if the primary is down for more
> than 30 seconds. This setup works well for me but RIPE Atlas is not part
> of this "auto switch" if the primary is down. 
> 
> I wonder if it makes sense to add RIPE Atlas to it? 
> 
>  1. It will improve my monthly availability report and possibly will
>     move from 98% uptime (of primary) to 99.9% uptime (of both links)
>     and that's actually real uptime on LAN. 
> 
>  2. But it would screw up probe data as both networks are completely
>     different and have different sets of upstream resulting in different
>     routing preference to root DNS instances etc. 

Hi Anurag,

>From an operational point of view we don't care. I.e., if the probe
measures what other hosts in your network would see, then that's fine.
Even if it would be confusing.

If you want to know what the wider Atlas community thinks, then it would
be best to ask on the main Atlas mailing list.

Philip