[atlas] DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS measurement

On 2019/04/08 17:04 , Petr Špaček wrote:
> Anyway, are there plans for supporting DNS-over-HTTPS?

Hi Petr,

A couple of years ago we created a policy regarding HTTP measurements on
RIPE Atlas. The concern was that probe hosts located in certain
countries could get into trouble should their probes try to reach
certain HTTP targets. So it was decided at the time that since these
measurements do not add much to the goal of RIPE Atlas, which is to
measure the Internet as a network and not the higher level protocols
that run on top of it, we restricted HTTP measurements such that they
are only able to target RIPE Atlas anchors.

Obviously there are benefits in measuring DNS-over-HTTPS. However, the
risk for probe hosts in certain countries remains the same. For this
reason, although we would be open to the creation of a new policy should
there be sufficient interest from the community, there are no plans to
support DNS-over-HTTPS until such a policy is in place.

Philip