[atlas] Support for arbitrary DNS queries

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