[atlas] Feature request for IP record route feature in RIPE Atlas

virtual vm probe would be great as well :) ask for this before

Colin

> On 9 Nov 2015, at 09:04, Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello, dear Atlas Team!
> 
> As host of RIPE Anchor #6111 I have some feedback about your awesome service!
> 
> Thanks for your Great Job in measuring Internet!
> 
> I would like to ask very important feature for measuring reverse trace
> route. I'm speaking about IP record route option which could track up
> to 9 hops of reverse path.
> 
> I want to know path to my hosts from networks who haven't RIPE Atlas.
> Actually I could not implement this feature due to 9 hop restriction
> in IP header.
> 
> But RIPE Atlas offer really huge coverage over the World and we could
> reach really any host with <7 hops. But we haven't this feature in
> RIPE Atlas.
> 
> Finally with this feature we could build full adjacently map over all the World.
> 
> I have checked implementation details here
> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/ripe-atlas-measurements-source-code
> 
> Looks like we need to build separate libevent based toolkit for this
> task or add this feature to ping tool. But unfortunately I could not
> find any docs about deploy of RIPE source code for development. Could
> you share some information?
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
>