[dns-operations] Distributed Monitoring

[Brian L. King]

For the cost of 10+ VPS hosts around the globe, my "user experience 
monitor" uses a home-grown script to query certain records having a 
different data value depending on which anycast site/server I hit, 
saving statistics to be collected and analyzed.  Low TTLs (less than my 
polling frequency) allow me to compare directed queries to natural, 
capturing the impacts of network anomalies, intermediary recursive 
resolver performance, etc.

Simple, but fairly elegant, and very useful.

Rebuilt that wheel, I suppose, but no expensive 3rd party product. And 
just the info/context that I care about.  Happy to share more info, if 
interested.

Brian L. King (blk at godaddy.com)
Senior Linux/DNS Systems Administrator, Managed/Corporate DNS, Go Daddy

On 03/03/2016 05:00 AM, dns-operations-request at dns-oarc.net wrote:
> From: Mark Jeftovic <markjr at easydns.com>
>
> I've been experimenting with Constellix and it's looking good.
>
> - mark
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 4:16 AM, Brett <brettcarr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> For various reasons we are currently considering changing some of the
>> monitoring around our DNS platform. We are specifically looking at the
>> distributed monitoring of Anycast  Auth DNS servers (IE from multiple
>> end points). I was wondering what other people use for this type of
>> monitoring? Anything you would strongly recommend or strongly advise
>> against. Open source along with commercial and SAAS solutions would
>> all be considered, the most important things are reliability and cost.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- 
>> Brett