[atlas] Error: Only anchors may be targeted.

Hi all,

On 25/06/2018 15:32, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 03:10:07PM +0200,
>  Guido Iaquinti <guido.iaquinti at gmail.com> wrote 
>  a message of 16 lines which said:
> 
>> I was discussing the above with a few friends and I understand that
>> there might be some security related concerns but I think with a
>> proper user policy and technical implementation they could be easily mitigated:
> 
> It is not purely technical. There is also an ethics problem as well
> <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/ethics-of-ripe-atlas-measurements>
> Basically, in places where you can have trouble for your Internet
> activity, HTTP is often actually monitored (which is not the case with
> ICMP and DNS).

Thanks Stephane!

In addition to this , we have come up with a workaround:

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/measuring-your-web-server-reachability-with-tcp-ping

Please take a look, and see if this is useful for some of the items on
your "wish list".

Vesna