About these tiny animals

[Novaliss]

Have searched for days now, and found no documentation or descriptions of these creatures.
Some logged entries have animals, others a rocket or nothing at all. Longpressing shows nothing. What do the animals mean?

[luciahk1]

I am curious as well
The rocket means resolved by cache
Others no idea
I think turtle mean slow ???
To be honest it is funny that we are guessing :))

[Novaliss]

Thanks for explaining the rocket. The dollar sign I believe means 'Metered Connection'.
Turtle should mean slow. But the elephant, could it mean 'no rule'? Elephants have no rules? Those icons makes me feel weird

[error-reporting]

Thanks for explaining the rocket. The dollar sign I believe means 'Metered Connection'. Turtle should mean slow. But the elephant, could it mean 'no rule'? Elephants have no rules? Those icons makes me feel weird

that could be large dns packet

[Novaliss]

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Thanks for explaining the rocket. The dollar sign I believe means 'Metered Connection'. Turtle should mean slow. But the elephant, could it mean 'no rule'? Elephants have no rules? Those icons makes me feel weird

that could be large dns packet

Aaah, that's way more likely. I don't know from where on Earth i got 'Elephants have no rules'.
Thanks a lot.

[Novaliss]

Maybe we could keep this safari going, as long as there's more animals.

Here I've got a duck, a 'cloudy weather', and a tilted squary romboid thing.
What could this express in RethinkDNS?

[Lanius-collaris]

Turtle means the duration of this flow is longer than 135 seconds.🙃

rethink-app/app/src/full/java/com/celzero/bravedns/adapter/ConnectionTrackerAdapter.kt

Lines 273 to 388 in 0c931d2

	if (VpnController.hasCid(ct.connId, ct.uid)) {
	b.connectionSummaryLl.visibility = View.VISIBLE
	b.connectionDataUsage.text = context.getString(R.string.lbl_active)
	b.connectionDuration.text = context.getString(R.string.symbol_green_circle)
	b.connectionDelay.text = ""
	hasMinSummary = true
	} else {
	b.connectionDataUsage.text = ""
	b.connectionDuration.text =""
	}
	if (connType.isMetered()) {
	b.connectionDelay.text = context.getString(R.string.symbol_currency)
	hasMinSummary = true
	} else {
	b.connectionDelay.text = ""
	}
	if (isRpnProxy(ct.rpid)) {
	b.connectionSummaryLl.visibility = View.VISIBLE
	b.connectionDelay.text =
	context.getString(
	R.string.ci_desc,
	b.connectionDelay.text,
	context.getString(R.string.symbol_sparkle)
	)
	} else if (isConnectionProxied(ct.blockedByRule, ct.proxyDetails)) {
	b.connectionSummaryLl.visibility = View.VISIBLE
	b.connectionDelay.text =
	context.getString(
	R.string.ci_desc,
	b.connectionDelay.text,
	context.getString(R.string.symbol_key)
	)
	hasMinSummary = true
	}
	if (!hasMinSummary) {
	b.connectionSummaryLl.visibility = View.GONE
	}
	return
	}
	b.connectionSummaryLl.visibility = View.VISIBLE
	val duration = getDurationInHumanReadableFormat(context, ct.duration)
	b.connectionDuration.text = context.getString(R.string.single_argument, duration)
	// add unicode for download and upload
	val download =
	context.getString(
	R.string.symbol_download,
	Utilities.humanReadableByteCount(ct.downloadBytes, true)
	)
	val upload =
	context.getString(
	R.string.symbol_upload,
	Utilities.humanReadableByteCount(ct.uploadBytes, true)
	)
	b.connectionDataUsage.text = context.getString(R.string.two_argument, upload, download)
	b.connectionDelay.text = ""
	if (connType.isMetered()) {
	b.connectionDelay.text =
	context.getString(
	R.string.ci_desc,
	b.connectionDelay.text,
	context.getString(R.string.symbol_currency)
	)
	}
	if (isConnectionHeavier(ct)) {
	b.connectionDelay.text =
	context.getString(
	R.string.ci_desc,
	b.connectionDelay.text,
	context.getString(R.string.symbol_heavy)
	)
	}
	if (isConnectionSlower(ct)) {
	b.connectionDelay.text =
	context.getString(
	R.string.ci_desc,
	b.connectionDelay.text,
	context.getString(R.string.symbol_turtle)
	)
	}
	// bunny in case rpid as present, key in case of proxy
	// bunny and key indicate conn is proxied, so its enough to show one of them
	if (isRpnProxy(ct.rpid)) {
	b.connectionSummaryLl.visibility = View.VISIBLE
	b.connectionDelay.text =
	context.getString(
	R.string.ci_desc,
	b.connectionDelay.text,
	context.getString(R.string.symbol_sparkle)
	)
	} else if (containsRelayProxy(ct.rpid)) {
	b.connectionDelay.text =
	context.getString(
	R.string.ci_desc,
	b.connectionDelay.text,
	context.getString(R.string.symbol_bunny)
	)
	} else if (isConnectionProxied(ct.blockedByRule, ct.proxyDetails)) {
	b.connectionDelay.text =
	context.getString(
	R.string.ci_desc,
	b.connectionDelay.text,
	context.getString(R.string.symbol_key)
	)
	}
	// rtt -> show rocket if less than 20ms, treat it as rtt
	if (isRoundTripShorter(ct.synack, ct.isBlocked)) {
	b.connectionDelay.text =
	context.getString(
	R.string.ci_desc,
	b.connectionDelay.text,
	context.getString(R.string.symbol_rocket)
	)
	}

rethink-app/app/src/full/java/com/celzero/bravedns/adapter/ConnectionTrackerAdapter.kt

Lines 420 to 423 in 0c931d2

	private fun isConnectionSlower(ct: ConnectionTracker): Boolean {
	return (ct.protocol == Protocol.UDP.protocolType && ct.duration > MAX_TIME_UDP) ||
	(ct.protocol == Protocol.TCP.protocolType && ct.duration > MAX_TIME_TCP)
	}

[ignoramous]

To add to @Lanius-collaris's answer:

🦆 🐇 🗝️ 🐘 🚀 🐢 🔷 ⛅ 🪂 💲

In Configure -> Logs -> DNS, these mean:

🦆 - resolved by System DNS.
🐇 - resolved over an ODoH proxy or WireGuard/SOCKS5/HTTP proxy or DNSCrypt relay.
🗝️ - not shown, I think.
🐘 - More than 5 (?) answers were returned for a single query.
🚀 - resolved under 10 milliseconds.
🐢 - answer has a very high time-to-live (can be cached for longer, I believe 10 minutes+).
🔷 - resolved by Fallback DNS (default/bootstrap DNS used mostly for Rethink's own queries)
⛅ - resolved by Sky (RDNS+)
🪂 - resolved by Max (RDNS+)
💲 - resolved over metered network (typically, mobile data)

nb: In Configure -> Logs -> Network, if these same emojis (animals or symbols) appear, they mean different things to what they do for DNS.

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Have searched for days now, and found no documentation

Pretty sure there's a thread or two about this on our subreddit r/rethinkdns and one or two issues on GitHub about it.

To be honest it is funny that we are guessing :))

Which is why it is left undocumented in the app (:

(moving this to discussions)