[mat-wg] RIPE Atlas DNS status checks
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Robert Kisteleki
robert at ripe.net
Thu Mar 20 10:02:46 CET 2014
On 2014.03.20. 9:49, Robert Kisteleki wrote: > On 2014.03.19. 12:02, Brett Carr wrote: >>> 2. An ability to provide sms/e-mail alerting depending on certain (user >>> definable) conditions. >> >> To be slightly more specific, >> >> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/introducing-ripe-atlas-status-checks >> >> Something more DNS specific but similar to the above would be very useful. > > This is entirely possible. In order to implement it, we'd like to keep the > mechanism described in the article, but extend it to support DNS. Still, > because determining success/failure of DNS measurements is a bit more tricky > than pings, the details need some discussion. I invite all to have that > discussion on the MAT-WG mailing list (also on cc now). As a conversation starter: what would you expect from these DNS checks? Some ideas / questions: * the generic framework will be the same (pull model, options specified in the URL, answer method still applies, ...) * checking RTT probably does not make that much sense for DNS, can we ignore that and do some combination of the ones below instead? * always treat "unable to connect" or "no answer" as an error condition (per probe)? * option for treating any response except "NOERROR" as an error condition (per probe)? * is there a need for comparing the results to an expected "known good" value? note that this is somewhat difficult in cases of random A/AAAA order. Maybe do this for SOA (serial) only? Please chime in if you're a DNS guy interested in how we could help you. (And I'd like to recommend reading the article and the status check API documentation first.) Regards, Robert
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