Re: [atlas] Effect of "Resolve on Probe"-option

2017-12-01 Thread Tim Wattenberg
Robert, thanks for your explanations. I now do understand this for all measurements exept for those of type DNS. DNS measurements with a central resolver somehow seem not that useful to me. Am I missing the use case here? Context: I want to measure the consistency of DNS records or how they are se

[atlas] map distinction between "no data yet" and "timeout"

2017-12-01 Thread Ben Clifford
I was just trying to get a map view for a nameserver that appeared to not be responding to people in some geographical areas. I fired off a measurement across a load of probes and get a map back. In my particular case, the result I'm looking for is whether a response came back from the targe

Re: [atlas] Effect of "Resolve on Probe"-option

2017-12-01 Thread Robert Kisteleki
On 2017-11-30 20:27, Tim Wattenberg wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I think I don’t quite understand the effect of the „Resolve on Probe“ option > when creating a measurement. The form says it forces the probe to do DNS > resolution, the API reference says that it indicates that a name should be > r