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James R Cutler
james.cutler at consultant.com
Tue Oct 20 20:03:58 CEST 2015
> On Oct 20, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Wilfried Woeber <woeber at cc.univie.ac.at> wrote: > > Hi Jon! > > On 2015-10-19 05:00, Jonathan Brewer wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I've run into a few probes marked private, and when I've found & asked the owners, >> they didn't realise they'd done anything restrictive or harmful to researchers by >> marking their probes private. >> >> Intrigued at this phenomena, I had a look at the probe metadata. Right now I think >> there are 1,534 Atlas probes that are active and connected to the network, but >> marked private. >> >> What's the point of having private probes in the network? Do their hosts still" >> earn credits they can use on public probes? Should they be? Are private probe >> hosts helping the project? > > IIRC, we did have quite a bit on the topic of labelling probes as "private", but > I would have to do some digging to find the references to that discussion.. > > But before chiming in ith my personal point of view, may I ask the Atlas Team > to summarize what the effects of "private" are. I seem to remember that private > probes *do* participate in the built-in measurements. I may be wron, though. > >> The FAQ says nothing about private probes, so I thought I would ask here. > > I think it is pretty useful to have another look at that setting. > >> Thanks, >> >> Jon > > Cheers, > Wilfried > My understanding is that my private probe participates in built-in measurements but is not open to the world. My small network is not designed to serve as a target for the world. James R. Cutler James.cutler at consultant.com PGP keys at http://pgp.mit.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/attachments/20151020/4ba7a723/attachment.html>
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