[atlas] IPv6 working

On 27/03/2016 22:45, gboonie wrote:

>>> Also, I've done a few hundred pings and found that probes get their
>>> "ipv6 works" only taken away after it has been failing for a few hours.
>>> Could that please be changed to something short like 10 minutes? And if
>>> possible, some stability tests so that if connectivity comes and goes
>>> that if does not get back it's "works" status.
>> Wouldn't that defy the purpose?
>>
>> If a probe can, generally, do something, but it is broken now, it
>> doesn't make sense to take away the label. Because then it wouldn't be
>> apparent that there is technical issue. It would just look like it can't
>> do it in any case.
>>
> Good point. Maybe some other way of indicating that it is not fully
> working.  Maybe "ipv6 partially working" instead.  This probe has real
> bad connectivity.

Hi Dave,

You're quite right that "IPv6 Works" is applied rather liberally. This
is because we wanted it to be a broad indicator that it isn't a complete
waste of time scheduling IPv6 measurements on a probe.

We have discussed in the past creating some kind of "IPv6 Stable" or
"IPv6 Reliable" tag to capture what you are talking about -- i.e. those
probes where you can be pretty sure that IPv6 is going to work, barring
some exceptional issues.

I expect that we will work on this kind of tag in the future (although I
can't currently say when), especially if we get more feedback along
these lines.

Kind regards,
Chris Amin
RIPE Atlas developer

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