// -=-=- StartHere -=-=- // // # Chapter III: using a custom DNS-over-UDP resolver // // In this chapter we learn how to measure sending DNS queries to // a DNS server speaking the DNS-over-UDP protocol. // // Without further ado, let's describe our example `main.go` program // and let's use it to better understand this flow. // // (This file is auto-generated. Do not edit it directly! To apply // changes you need to modify `./internal/tutorial/measurex/chapter03/main.go`.) // // ## main.go // // The initial part of the program is pretty much the same as the one // used in previous chapters, so I will not add further comments. // // ```Go package main import ( "context" "encoding/json" "flag" "fmt" "time" "github.com/ooni/probe-cli/v3/internal/measurex" "github.com/ooni/probe-cli/v3/internal/runtimex" ) func main() { query := flag.String("query", "example.com", "domain to resolve") address := flag.String("address", "8.8.4.4:53", "DNS-over-UDP server address") timeout := flag.Duration("timeout", 60*time.Second, "timeout to use") flag.Parse() ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), *timeout) defer cancel() mx := measurex.NewMeasurerWithDefaultSettings() // ``` // // ### Using a custom UDP resolver // // We now invoke `LookupHostUDP`. We specify: // // - a context for timeout information; // // - the domain to query for; // // - the address of the DNS-over-UDP server endpoint. // // ```Go m := mx.LookupHostUDP(ctx, *query, *address) // ``` // // Also this operation returns a measurement, which // we print using the usual three-liner. // // ```Go data, err := json.Marshal(measurex.NewArchivalDNSMeasurement(m)) runtimex.PanicOnError(err, "json.Marshal failed") fmt.Printf("%s\n", string(data)) } // ``` // // ## Running the example program // // As before, let us start off with a vanilla run: // // ```bash // go run -race ./internal/tutorial/measurex/chapter03 | jq // ``` // // This time we get a much larger JSON, so I will pretend it is // actually JavaScript and add comments to explain it inline. // // (This is the first case in which we see how a single // method call for measurer causes several events to // be generated and inserted into a `Measurement`.) // // ```JavaScript // { // "domain": "example.com", // // // This block shows the read and write events // // occurred on the sockets (because we control // // in full the implementation of this DNS // // over UDP resolver, we can see these events) // // // // See https://github.com/ooni/spec/blob/master/data-formats/df-008-netevents.md // // for a description of this data format. // "network_events": [ // { // "address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "failure": null, // "num_bytes": 29, // "operation": "write", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 0.00048825, // "started": 0.000462917, // "oddity": "" // }, // { // "address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "failure": null, // "num_bytes": 45, // "operation": "read", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 0.022081833, // "started": 0.000502625, // "oddity": "" // }, // { // "address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "failure": null, // "num_bytes": 29, // "operation": "write", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 0.022433083, // "started": 0.022423875, // "oddity": "" // }, // { // "address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "failure": null, // "num_bytes": 57, // "operation": "read", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 0.046706, // "started": 0.022443833, // "oddity": "" // } // ], // // // This block shows the query we sent (encoded as base64) // // and the response we received. Here we clearly see // // that we perform two DNS "round trip" (i.e., send request // // and receive response) to resolve a domain: one for // // A and the other for AAAA. // // // // We don't have a specification for this data format yet. // "dns_events": [ // { // "engine": "udp", // "resolver_address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "raw_query": { // "data": "dGwBAAABAAAAAAAAB2V4YW1wbGUDY29tAAABAAE=", // "format": "base64" // }, // "started": 0.000205083, // "t": 0.022141333, // "failure": null, // "raw_reply": { // "data": "dGyBgAABAAEAAAAAB2V4YW1wbGUDY29tAAABAAHADAABAAEAAEuIAARduNgi", // "format": "base64" // } // }, // { // "engine": "udp", // "resolver_address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "raw_query": { // "data": "Ts8BAAABAAAAAAAAB2V4YW1wbGUDY29tAAAcAAE=", // "format": "base64" // }, // "started": 0.022221417, // "t": 0.046733125, // "failure": null, // "raw_reply": { // "data": "Ts+BgAABAAEAAAAAB2V4YW1wbGUDY29tAAAcAAHADAAcAAEAAFOQABAmBigAAiAAAQJIGJMlyBlG", // "format": "base64" // } // } // ], // // // This is the same kind of result as before, we // // show the emitted queries and the resolved addrs. // // // // Also note how here the resolver_address is the // // correct endpoint address and the engine tells us // // that we're using DNS over UDP. // "queries": [ // { // "answers": [ // { // "answer_type": "A", // "ipv4": "93.184.216.34" // } // ], // "engine": "udp", // "failure": null, // "hostname": "example.com", // "query_type": "A", // "resolver_address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "t": 0.046766833, // "started": 0.000124375, // "oddity": "" // }, // { // "answers": [ // { // "answer_type": "AAAA", // "ivp6": "2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946" // } // ], // "engine": "udp", // "failure": null, // "hostname": "example.com", // "query_type": "AAAA", // "resolver_address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "t": 0.046766833, // "started": 0.000124375, // "oddity": "" // } // ] // } // ``` // // This data format is really an extension of the `LookupHostSystem` // one. It just adds more fields that clarify what happened at low // level in terms of socket I/O and queries sent and received. // // Let us now try to provoke some errors and see how the // output JSON changes because of them. // // ### Measurement with NXDOMAIN // // Let us try to get a NXDOMAIN error. // // ```bash // go run -race ./internal/tutorial/measurex/chapter03 -query antani.ooni.org | jq // ``` // // This produces the following JSON: // // ```JavaScript // { // "domain": "antani.ooni.org", // "network_events": [ /* snip */ ], // // "dns_events": [ // { // "engine": "udp", // "resolver_address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "raw_query": { // "data": "p7YBAAABAAAAAAAABmFudGFuaQRvb25pA29yZwAAAQAB", // "format": "base64" // }, // "started": 0.000152959, // "t": 0.051650917, // "failure": null, // "raw_reply": { // "data": "p7aBgwABAAAAAQAABmFudGFuaQRvb25pA29yZwAAAQABwBMABgABAAAHCAA9BGRuczERcmVnaXN0cmFyLXNlcnZlcnMDY29tAApob3N0bWFzdGVywDJhbwqOAACowAAADhAACTqAAAAOEQ==", // "format": "base64" // } // }, // { // "engine": "udp", // "resolver_address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "raw_query": { // "data": "ILkBAAABAAAAAAAABmFudGFuaQRvb25pA29yZwAAHAAB", // "format": "base64" // }, // "started": 0.051755209, // "t": 0.101094375, // "failure": null, // "raw_reply": { // "data": "ILmBgwABAAAAAQAABmFudGFuaQRvb25pA29yZwAAHAABwBMABgABAAAHCAA9BGRuczERcmVnaXN0cmFyLXNlcnZlcnMDY29tAApob3N0bWFzdGVywDJhbwqOAACowAAADhAACTqAAAAOEQ==", // "format": "base64" // } // } // ], // // "queries": [ // { // "answers": null, // "engine": "udp", // "failure": "dns_nxdomain_error", // "hostname": "antani.ooni.org", // "query_type": "A", // "resolver_address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "t": 0.101241667, // "started": 8.8e-05, // "oddity": "dns.lookup.nxdomain" // }, // { // "answers": null, // "engine": "udp", // "failure": "dns_nxdomain_error", // "hostname": "antani.ooni.org", // "query_type": "AAAA", // "resolver_address": "8.8.4.4:53", // "t": 0.101241667, // "started": 8.8e-05, // "oddity": "dns.lookup.nxdomain" // } // ] // } // ``` // // We indeed get a NXDOMAIN error as the failure in `lookup_host`. // // Let us now decode one of the replies by using this program: // // ``` // package main // // import ( // "fmt" // "encoding/base64" // // "github.com/miekg/dns" // ) // // func main() { // const query = "azGBgwABAAAAAQAABmFudGFuaQRvb25pA29yZwAAHAABwBMABgABAAAHCAA9BGRuczERcmVnaXN0cmFyLXNlcnZlcnMDY29tAApob3N0bWFzdGVywDJhABz8AACowAAADhAACTqAAAAOEQ==" // data, _ := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(query) // msg := new(dns.Msg) // _ = msg.Unpack(data) // fmt.Printf("%s\n", msg) //} // ``` // // where `query` is one of the replies. If we run this program // we get as the output: // // ``` // ;; opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 27441 // ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 // // ;; QUESTION SECTION: // ;antani.ooni.org. IN AAAA // // ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: // ooni.org. 1800 IN SOA dns1.registrar-servers.com. hostmaster.registrar-servers.com. 1627397372 43200 3600 604800 3601 // ``` // // ### Measurement with timeout // // Let us now query an IP address known for not responding // to DNS queries, to get a timeout. // // ```bash // go run -race ./internal/tutorial/measurex/chapter03 -address 182.92.22.222:53 // ``` // // Here's the corresponding JSON: // // ```JavaScript // { // "domain": "example.com", // "network_events": [ // { // "address": "182.92.22.222:53", // "failure": null, // "num_bytes": 29, // "operation": "write", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 0.000479583, // "started": 0.00045525, // "oddity": "" // }, // { // "address": "182.92.22.222:53", // "failure": "generic_timeout_error", /* <--- */ // "operation": "read", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 5.006016292, // "started": 0.000491792, // "oddity": "" // } // ], // "dns_events": [ // { // "engine": "udp", // "resolver_address": "182.92.22.222:53", // "raw_query": { // "data": "GRUBAAABAAAAAAAAB2V4YW1wbGUDY29tAAABAAE=", // "format": "base64" // }, // "started": 0.00018225, // "t": 5.006185667, // "failure": "generic_timeout_error", /* <--- */ // "raw_reply": null // } // /* snip */ // ], // "queries": [ // { // "answers": null, // "engine": "udp", // "failure": "generic_timeout_error", /* <--- */ // "hostname": "example.com", // "query_type": "A", // "resolver_address": "182.92.22.222:53", // "t": 5.007385458, // "started": 0.000107583, // "oddity": "dns.lookup.timeout" // }, // { // "answers": null, // "engine": "udp", // "failure": "generic_timeout_error", /* <--- */ // "hostname": "example.com", // "query_type": "AAAA", // "resolver_address": "182.92.22.222:53", // "t": 5.007385458, // "started": 0.000107583, // "oddity": "dns.lookup.timeout" // } // ] // } // ``` // // We see that we fail with a timeout (I have marked some of them // with comments inside the JSON). We see the timeout at three different // levels of abstractions (from lower to higher abstraction): at the socket // layer (`network_events`), during the DNS round trip (`dns_events`), // during the DNS lookup (`queries`). // // What we also see is that `t`'s value is ~5s when the `read` event // fails, which tells us about the socket's read timeout. // // ### Measurement with REFUSED error // // Let us now try to get a REFUSED DNS Rcode, again from servers // that are, let's say, kind enough to easily help. // // ```bash // go run -race ./internal/tutorial/measurex/chapter03 -address 180.97.36.63:53 | jq // ``` // // Here's the answer I get: // // ```JavaScript // { // "domain": "example.com", // // // The network events look normal this time // "network_events": [ // { // "address": "180.97.36.63:53", // "failure": null, // "num_bytes": 29, // "operation": "write", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 0.000492125, // "started": 0.000467042, // "oddity": "" // }, // { // "address": "180.97.36.63:53", // "failure": null, // "num_bytes": 29, // "operation": "read", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 0.321373542, // "started": 0.000504833, // "oddity": "" // }, // { // "address": "180.97.36.63:53", // "failure": null, // "num_bytes": 29, // "operation": "write", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 0.322500875, // "started": 0.322450042, // "oddity": "" // }, // { // "address": "180.97.36.63:53", // "failure": null, // "num_bytes": 29, // "operation": "read", // "proto": "udp", // "t": 0.655514542, // "started": 0.322557667, // "oddity": "" // } // ], // // // Exercise: do like I did before and decode the messages // "dns_events": [ // { // "engine": "udp", // "resolver_address": "180.97.36.63:53", // "raw_query": { // "data": "WcgBAAABAAAAAAAAB2V4YW1wbGUDY29tAAABAAE=", // "format": "base64" // }, // "started": 0.000209875, // "t": 0.321504042, // "failure": null, // "raw_reply": { // "data": "WciBBQABAAAAAAAAB2V4YW1wbGUDY29tAAABAAE=", // "format": "base64" // } // }, // { // "engine": "udp", // "resolver_address": "180.97.36.63:53", // "raw_query": { // "data": "I9oBAAABAAAAAAAAB2V4YW1wbGUDY29tAAAcAAE=", // "format": "base64" // }, // "started": 0.321672042, // "t": 0.655680792, // "failure": null, // "raw_reply": { // "data": "I9qBBQABAAAAAAAAB2V4YW1wbGUDY29tAAAcAAE=", // "format": "base64" // } // } // ], // // // We see both in the error and in the oddity // // that the response was "REFUSED" // "queries": [ // { // "answers": null, // "engine": "udp", // "failure": "dns_refused_error", // "hostname": "example.com", // "query_type": "A", // "resolver_address": "180.97.36.63:53", // "t": 0.655814875, // "started": 0.000107417, // "oddity": "dns.lookup.refused" // }, // { // "answers": null, // "engine": "udp", // "failure": "dns_refused_error", // "hostname": "example.com", // "query_type": "AAAA", // "resolver_address": "180.97.36.63:53", // "t": 0.655814875, // "started": 0.000107417, // "oddity": "dns.lookup.refused" // } // ] // } // ``` // // ## Conclusion // // We have seen how to send DNS queries over UDP, measure the // results, and what happens on common error conditions. // // -=-=- StopHere -=-=-