On 2015-12-09 20:53, Jared Mauch wrote: > >> On Dec 9, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Randy Bush <ra...@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