[atlas] Atlas anchors as ping targets

On 31-Jan-23 01:15, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
>> The idea here is
>>
>>    - I have a host in a "home network" that has 2 ISPs, with a global IPv6
>>      address from each of them
>>
>>    - one of the ISPs fails, but the host does not know, and keeps using
>>      the "broken" IPv6 source address
>>
>>    - by cyclic measurements, Brian's tool will see "nah, that address stopped
>>      working" and will de-preference it on the host -> host starts using the
>>      other IPv6 source address -> connectivity restored (over the other ISP)
>>
>> and the test envisioned would be "ping something willing to be pinged" :-)
> 
> Yes that's fine, there could be $reasons to do more measurements! :)

Thanks. And Gert's summary is just perfect. It may be a day or two for
personal reasons, but I will post my code to github after a few more tweaks.

    Brian Carpenter