[dnstap] dnstap fanout and replay

Matthew Pounsett matt at conundrum.com
Wed Apr 25 17:39:50 UTC 2018


On 25 April 2018 at 12:43, Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org> wrote:

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> Matthew Pounsett wrote:
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>> ...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> to be clear, dnstap can do streaming, or storage. it lacks a lot compared
> to c-dns for storage, but it's not limited to streaming.
>

Indeed.  I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't useful for that.. just that for
the streaming component protobuf has clear advantages over C-DNS.
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