[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Question of high availability for atlas via different ASNs
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Anurag Bhatia
me at anuragbhatia.com
Fri Jul 21 19:02:17 CEST 2017
Thanks for inputs Vaibhav and Philip @Philip - Can you share if probes come online and connect back to RIPE infra if WAN IP is changed within 30 seconds? Thanks. On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Philip Homburg <philip.homburg at ripe.net> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors mailing list > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors at ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors > -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas-ambassadors/attachments/20170721/99ce0e8c/attachment.html>
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