[dns-operations] "off label" use of PTR records for fanout

2023-06-15 Thread Fred Morris
Hello, I'm using DNS to retrieve some distributed telemetry data from multiple servers. To facilitate this I have an FQDN which resolves to a set of PTR records. If there's a generally accepted better option, let me know. If you just want to bike shed this fine, I invite you to email me directly

Re: [dns-operations] "off label" use of PTR records for fanout

2023-06-15 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 01:05:50PM -0700, Fred Morris wrote: > I'm using DNS to retrieve some distributed telemetry data from multiple > servers. To facilitate this I have an FQDN which resolves to a set of > PTR records. If there's a generally accepted better option, let me know. > > If you just

Re: [dns-operations] "off label" use of PTR records for fanout

2023-06-15 Thread Jared Mauch
Often folks will use TXT with a low TTL and use a specific label path to perform this function. Sent via RFC1925 compliant device > On Jun 15, 2023, at 4:22 PM, Fred Morris wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using DNS to retrieve some distributed telemetry data from multiple > servers. To facilitate

Re: [dns-operations] "off label" use of PTR records for fanout

2023-06-15 Thread Fred Morris
Here's the (open source) general purpose implementation: https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns_examples/blob/main/fanout/fanout.py The README.md in that directory hopefully provides more illumination than smoke. You are free to use it for your own purposes, your mapping function can do whatever it