[mat-wg] on DNSMON

Hello,

Later this afternoon Daniel is presenting on the (non-)future of TTM and
specifically DNSMON. Unfortunately I'm unable to attend even remotely,
so here are a few comments on our use of DNSMON which might be useful to
the discussion.

While we have been hosting a TTM box for a long time, DNSMON is
basically the only derived servie we have been using. We are operating a
TLD, and DNSMON is currently the only way we have to monitor the overall
quality and reachability of our DNS service, specifically as many of the
nameservers are anycast clouds. DNSMON is used from casual checking if
everything is still green, down to specific debugging of local issues,
even using the raw data from time to time. So what matters to us is:

- easily interpreted graphs and overviews, with the ability to drill
down on servers or probes
- historical information (whithin the graphs)
- detailed (raw) data

I have a few ideas what could be added, but these are really the
functions that would be dearly missed if DNSMON were to disappear. If
the data is collected by ATLAS probes or TTM boxes does obviously not
matter very much. The ease of access to the information however is
important.

Have a nice meeting!

Gilles

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