> On 9 Nov 2016, at 12:01, Peter van Dijk <peter.van.d...@powerdns.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Robert,
>
> On 12 Oct 2016, at 21:38, Robert Edmonds wrote:
>
>> What are status queries? Were they ever defined? Are they obsolete?
>
> I have been unable to find a definition, and I tried quite hard earlier this
> year when a customer complained we were not handling them! Some VOIP
> equipment that shall remain unnamed needed to do ENUM queries, but only after
> a successful ‘health check’.
>
> The health check looked like this (sorry, don’t have the pcap handy, just
> this summary):
> ID 0
> flags all zero except for the rcode=2
> all counts zero
> 6 trailing NUL bytes
>
> Once pdns_server started responding NOTIMP, instead of dropping the query,
> the equipment was happy.
Argus system and network monitoring software [1] sends DNS status requests.
If you look at [2], it states:
"UDP/DNS sends a 'status-query', UDP/DNSQ sends an 'IN ANY' query. some DNS
servers (notably djbdns) do not handle 'status' queries.”
On the wire, it is an apparently random identifier, that doesn’t change between
queries and only contains a 12 byte DNS header, opcode 2, rcode 0, all bits and
counters 0.
Hope this helps
Warmly,
Roy
[1] http://argus.tcp4me.com/ <http://argus.tcp4me.com/>
[2] http://argus.tcp4me.com/services.html
<http://argus.tcp4me.com/services.html>
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