16–17 May 2026 Workshop
Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Europe/London timezone

Tracing and DNS

17 May 2026, 16:05
5m
Tinto and Moorfoot (Edinburgh International Conference Centre)

Tinto and Moorfoot

Edinburgh International Conference Centre

The Exchange Edinburgh EH3 8EE Scotland
Lightning Talk Main Session OARC 46 Day 2

Speaker

Wouter de Vries (Cloudflare)

Description

We'll present a draft specification (from PowerDNS) for transmitting tracing IDs inside DNS queries using a new EDNS OPT record called TRACEPARENT. Alongside, we'll demonstrate (draft) implementations of tracing in a proprietary resolver/authoritative DNS implementation as well as in the (open source) DNS loadbalancer dnsdist. We hope to raise awareness and enthusiasm for the improved debugging capabilities this provides.

Talk duration 5 Minutes Lightning Talk (no Q&A)

Primary authors

Pieter Lexis (PowerDNS.COM / Open-Xchange) Wouter de Vries (Cloudflare)

Presentation materials