[Pdns-users] Call for recursive testing data - please help!

[Ton van Rosmalen]

Hi Bert,

I donÃ
½t run the recursor myself just the authorative server. Will 
authorative data be ok as well?

Regards,

Ton van Rosmalen

bert hubert schreef:
> Dear PowerDNS users,
>
> PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5 is around the corner, shaping up to be a rather
> important upgrade, and we need your help!
>
> 3.1.5 is in large scale production use in some places already, which has
> helped shake out a number of bugs.
>
> Our internal test procedures consist of verifying PowerDNS Recursor answers
> against previously recorded traffic, and for this purpose we have lots of
> test data, but this data is getting old, and we need new data.
>
> You can help us tremendously by recording DNS data to your resolvers, and
> sending it to us in anonymised form. We even provide tools to anonymise
> traffic.
>
> To record traffic, run on your recursor:
> # tcpdump -p -C 200 -s 1500 -w for-powerdns port 53 
>
> Then anonimise using 'dnswasher':
>
> # for a in for-powerdns* ; do dnswasher $a washed-$a; done
>
> The resulting washed-* files do not contain IP addresses of your customers
> anymore, which can be verified with tcpdump. A binary Linux copy of
> dnswasher can be found on http://svn.powerdns.com/dnswasher.bz2 - it can
> also be compiled from the PowerDNS sources.
>
> We are looking for gigabytes of data, the command above will generate 200MB
> files. The more data you can send, the better it is for us.
>
> Please contact me on how to transfer these files to me. We will treat your
> anonymised data as confidential, of course.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bert Hubert
> PowerDNS
>
>