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