[atlas] AS number in traceroute data

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Lex van Roon <r3boot at r3blog.nl> wrote:
> Hi
>

Hi,

> On 04/29, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
>> On 2013.04.26. 12:14, Pavel Veselovskiy wrote:
>> > Is it possible to perform RIPE Atlas measurements with a key "-A" that
>> > shows the number of autonomous systems?
>> >
>> No, there's no support for this on the probes. It'd be pretty expensive for
>> to do this on the fly, as it involves a lookup (into BGP or IRRs) for
>> virtually every packet received.
>>
>> But it would be possible to annotate the results in some way, when storing
>> them or when you access them. Is this something that would be interesting
>> for others too?
>
> Annotations would make sense and it would be interesting to me. Otoh,
> this is also something that can be easily implemented on a case-by-case
> basis by atlas users in their own scripts when parsing the RIPE atlas probe
> results.
>

I entirely agree.

To me, the right place to implement this sort of smarts is on the
client side's userland. The new github community repo is a good
starting point in that direction.

I, for one, would be comfortable using a client* that would perform
all the transformations/operations locally after consuming vanilla
data straight from the Atlas API.

Regards,

Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina Cazenave

* Ideally, an extensible client, part of a bigger, collaborative framework :-)

> gr, Lex
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