On 2015-12-09 20:53, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Dec 9, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
I'd like to request the ability to have RIPE Atlas probes be able to issue DNS queries for arbitrary record types, and have that capability exposed in the API. I'm particularly interested in newer DANE record types like TLSA, OPENPGPKEY, SMIMEA, etc but a general purpose mechanism would be useful.
Is this feasible? Are others interested in this capability?
definitely! both for research and for monitoring my own services.
Perhaps a method to just set the RRType as integer would work in the interim?
- Jared
Thank you for everyone who chimed in so far on this topic. This feature is on our radar, or short-list if you will (and I'm sure it'll appear on the public roadmap shortly ;-) Paraphrasing what we have as description / todo internally for the actual feature (Jared: bingo!): "[once implemented] simple DNS measurements can happen just like they do today: I can select a DNS query type by mnemonic. The new feature is about advanced DNS measurements: users should be able to specify a DNS type ID (numerical value, 0-65K) which is checked against a whitelist" We plan to have a whitelist [of query IDs], both because the probes just don't fully support all types, and some users expressed that they would not like us to support all query types; for example axfr/ixfr are complicated examples. Regards, Robert