[atlas] Thoughts on allowing newer DNS RR queries?

Hi Mark,
what is the specific RR query you are looking for?

currently we support a bunch of them UDP or TCP. Here is a list.

in class IN
A, AAAA, ANY, CNAME, DS, DNSKEY, MX, NS, NSEC, NSEC3, PTR, RRSIG, SOA, SRV, NAPTR. 

class CHAOS 
hostname.bind, id.server, version.bind, version.server 

regards,
-antony

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:54:29PM +0000, Mark Delany wrote:
> Outside of Atlas I've been doing a few tests to see how well CPE
> supports newer RR types. By newer I mean newer than AAAA. I'd like to
> do the same with the Atlas probes.
> 
> Has there been discussion about being able to issue RR queries of
> newer types?
> 
> On the query side, the Atlas device only needs to know enough to
> encode the type-value which could be supplied as a numeric if
> necessary. On the response side, a simple hex dump of the response
> would be good enough.
> 
> I guess it's sort of a one-off test for most probes because once we
> know a probe and its intervening caches does or does not support a
> number of newer types, that situation is unlikely to require
> re-testing very often. So an alternative might be to make it a
> bootstrap sequence that the probe goes thru?
> 
> Out of curiousity, how does the probe do the current DNS queries? Is
> it via dig or similar or is it coded into a program of some sort?
> 
> 
> Mark.
> 
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