All, Stephane Bortzmeyer:
On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 02:12:06PM +0900, dikshie <dikshie@gmail.com> wrote a message of 11 lines which said:
I use to use +trace option in dig command. Is there any same function equivalency in Atlas's DNS measurement tool?
dig +trace is not very reliable, and does not work with all resolvers. And, no, I don't think there is an equivalent for the Atlas probes. It would require some resolver-like logic in the probe.
It is in principle possible to simulate resolver-like logic without updating the probe. In fact, I worked on a team to do just that at a RIPE Atlas Hackathon a couple years ago. You can see the results on GitHub here: https://github.com/shane-kerr/ripe-atlas-shrugd This was just a hack, but the technique should be usable to do something similar to "dig +trace". Cheers, -- Shane