JSON export - idea

[adulau]

Hi Happy developers at DNS-OARC ;-),

A small question, is there a specific reason why a simple JSON stream export is not in dnscap? We did
some work on CBOR dns format but we still think that having a simple JSON stream export (just like the standard dig format export) would be of a great interest.

Is it something that you plan to do? If not, would you accept a contribution/pull-request to do a JSON stream export?

Thank you very much for your work.

[jelu]

The only reason would be that no one has made it yet.

The CDS format was created with a couple of specific targets, reduce the storage required to around 30% (as seen with C-DNS) and keep all uniqueness of the DNS message (incorrectness, invalid, exactly how the DNS labels are arranged etc).

With that in mind, JSON would bloat DNS rather then reduce the size. You would also need to describe the JSON which will bloat it even more. Also, dnscap should be able to capture at high rates, adding something as JSON output would add a lot of processing power requirements.

There is currently no plans to add JSON output but there is another experimental CBOR output that follows an RFC draft of DNS-over-JSON and CBOR can be easily converted to JSON.

This is an open source project, fire away them pull requests! :)

[jelu]

@adulau ping?

[jelu]

@adulau ping?