Anteater

Real-time Authoritative Server Monitoring with passive DNS measurements.

We presented Anteater recently at:

• DNS-OARC 34
• Please refer to our technical report on DNS/RTT measurements

We have been using Anteater at SIDN for more than 1 year now.

To install it

• Read INSTALL.md for how to configure it

To run it

• Follow INSTALL.md and simply python anteater.py

To run it on a specific date:

• Say you had an issue with your ENTRADA data, and when you ran anteater the data was incomplete.
• You can re-run now anteater for any given date: simply run rerun_for_given_date.py, using as parameter the day you want, as python rerun_for_given_date.py 20210310
  • The command above will delete from PostgreSQL all data for the specified date (2021-03-10)
  • Then, it will re-run queries agian for this specific day,and repopulate the database based on now complete data from ENTRADA.

Demo (screenshots):

• See demo.md for your dashboards will look like

Changelog

• 2021-03-04: Fully automated via src/anteater.py.
• 2021-03-04: The third dashboard is operational, which monitors individual ASes. See demo.md for more
• 2021-03-04: The second dashboard is operational, which monitors anycast sites. See demo.md for more
• 2021-03-02: The first dashboard is operational!

• Anteater image designed by brgfx / Freepik