[dns-operations] Never mind - sorry for the noise Re: Does anybody have a good list of capture filters for DNS traffic - details in email

[Stefan]

Right after sending this email I remembered the display filters available
in tshark - so I'll just install tshark everywhere I need and run it in a
double-pass mode. KISS

​Sorry again for the noise​

***Stefan


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Stefan <netfortius at gmail.com
<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=netfortius@gmail.com>>
wrote:

> Hello, DNS gurus,
>
> Does anybody have a good set of tcpdump/tshark capture filters, associated
> with DNS, already prep-ed for specific fields in the payload (so beyond
> just the simplistic udp 53 or tcp 53)?
>
> Why am I asking?
>
> - I need to set up traffic captures in various tiers of
> servers-hosting-applications whose owners cannot tell where the inter-tiers
> reachability depends (and maybe fails) on FWD or REVERSE lookups. This
> cannot be done by asking the server or apps folks to use the DNS
> traditional tools (dig, nslookup, host, etc.) simply because they cannot
> tell which hostnames or IPs make up the functionality of very complex apps,
> and have dependency on name resolution (direct or reverse) in order to work
> - I would be mostly interested (of course) in DNS packets with no responses
> - I would like to avoid re-inventing the wheel by trying to figure out at
> which byte offset I would have to start reading a string (is it even
> possible to identify that, knowing that certain strings are variable in
> length??), and identify no response, if someone has already figured out
> such things ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance for directions or "no way - forget about it"
> ***Stefan
>
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