# Unhappy with defaults in web gui

**URL:** <https://forum.ripe.net/t/unhappy-with-defaults-in-web-gui/1359>\
**Category:** RIPE Atlas\
**Tags:** ipv6\
**Created:** [7 March 2025 19:31 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/unhappy-with-defaults-in-web-gui/1359 "2025-03-07T19:31:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tschaefer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@tschaefer](https://forum.ripe.net/u/tschaefer)\
**Post date:** [7 March 2025 19:31 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/unhappy-with-defaults-in-web-gui/1359/1 "2025-03-07T19:31:17Z")

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Regarding the (new) gui I am still disappointed by:

- create measurement: ipv4 preselected (in ping, traceroute, dns, tls, http, ntp)
- dashboard QuickLook measurement: ipv4 preselected
- and even worse the new probe overview: Well-known Targets ipv4-only !!!

Any client with a recent protocol stack tries IPv6 first. Here at ripe atlas the clocks go backwards. ☹

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**Author:** ![ssuess](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.ripe.net/ssuess/32/357_2.png) [@ssuess](https://forum.ripe.net/u/ssuess)\
**Post date:** [10 March 2025 16:29 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/unhappy-with-defaults-in-web-gui/1359/2 "2025-03-10T16:29:38Z")

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Hi again and thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, it is still more likely that probes are running v4 than v6, which is why we made those the defaults. However, I just created a new preference that you can check out on our beta site at:

> **[RIPE Atlas - RIPE Network Coordination Centre](https://beta-ui.atlas.ripe.net/prefs)**
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> RIPE Atlas is the RIPE NCC's main Internet data measurement system.

In the General card, you will now see a dropdown that allows you to select your preferred address family, and then when you visit any of the items you mentioned, you should see them default to v6 (if they are capable, otherwise they should show v4 information).

Please give it a try and let us know what you think. There is still some development and testing left to do on this but if all goes well we can roll this feature out to production in short order.

Kind regards,  
Stephen  
Atlas UI

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**Author:** ![tschaefer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@tschaefer](https://forum.ripe.net/u/tschaefer)\
**Post date:** [10 March 2025 18:13 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/unhappy-with-defaults-in-web-gui/1359/3 "2025-03-10T18:13:04Z")

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Thank you for custom configurable solution via preferences. In my first try it works perfectly.  
One word to your argument “it is still more likely that probes are running v4 than v6”.  
Unfortunately it seems to be true. Nevertheless some statistics say users perspective is nearly 50/50 (google: ~45/55, Facebook: ~41/59, cloudflare ~40/60, apnic ~40/60)  
Also probes do not reflect, that many users use mobile networks. But that is a different story ( I try to solve that problem a little bit with my probes.)

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**Author:** ![ssuess](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.ripe.net/ssuess/32/357_2.png) [@ssuess](https://forum.ripe.net/u/ssuess)\
**Post date:** [25 March 2025 10:52 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/unhappy-with-defaults-in-web-gui/1359/4 "2025-03-25T10:52:30Z")

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Just a quick update, this (along with other changes and fixes) was just released to production.

Kind regards,  
Stephen  
Atlas UI