[atlas] msm_name in DNS measurements?

Well... It is a legacy field needed to speed up consumption of the 
measurement results by saving on database requests. Result consumption 
is a place where we put a lot of optimization efforts. Basically 'Tdig' 
is a class name.

Since we are still in transition to the new measurement result storage 
we need to keep it. As soon as we stop depending on it it will be gone.

The system is evolving and it may happen that you get it in the 
downloaded results because we are transparent and do little filtering on 
the results data.

That is the reason you can ignore it and you shouldn't depend on it.


WBR

Viktor Naoumov

On 11/6/13 7:50 PM, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
> vnaumov at ripe.net:
>> You can ignore it. It is for the system purposes.
> Umm. This is a very disappointing answer. The RIPE NCC always prides
> itself in being transparent. The answer above is not a supporting
> fact.
>
> It may well be that the field is for system purposes, but please do
> describe those system purposes. We are engineers, not children.
>
> 				Best regards,
> 				  /Liman
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