On 25 April 2018 at 04:13, Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org> wrote: > > dnstap is now years old. i don't expect it to change its on-wire format. >>> >> >> But it would be really good to move away from a proprietary format. >> > > i don't think it's proprietary in any sense. google open sourced it. > > what i'm hoping is that the first dnstap file ever recorded will always be > readable, just as the first dns-containing pcap file will always be. > > movement for the sake of movement is not what i'd call good engineering. >
I think it's no secret that a group of us have been working on writing a clear specification for the current implementations of dntap. The goal is to get that specification published, and then start work on a version 2 to make it better. One of the benefits of using protobufs is that we can easily do that in a backward compatible way. I like C-DNS for long term storage, but even its creators agree that it's not particularly good at streaming data, which is a basic requirement of any useful dnstap deployment. So, I don't see us moving in that direction. Someone might want to write a dnstap->C-DNS converter for long term storage, however.
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