DNSPython is a Python package that provides high and low level access to DNS.
DNSPython is a Python package that provides high and low level access to DNS. Find more information here: http://www.dnspython.org/
Questions tagged [dnspython]
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How do we get TXT, CNAME and SOA records from dnspython?
I have a requirement to have a dns query function to query a server for various records. I figured out how to get the MX record (most of the examples show this), A record and NS record. How do I get the TXT, CNAME and SOA records?
Sample code…
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Tell urllib2 to use custom DNS
I'd like to tell urllib2.urlopen (or a custom opener) to use 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) to resolve addresses. I wouldn't change my /etc/resolv.conf, however.
One possible solution is to use a tool like dnspython to query addresses and httplib to build a…
Attila O.
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Dnspython: Setting query timeout/lifetime
I have a small script that checks a large list of domains for their MX records, everything works fine but when the script finds a domain with no record, it takes quite a long time to skip to the next one.
I have tried adding:
query.lifetime =…
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How can I find the authoritative DNS server for a domain using dnspython?
As part of a tool I'm writing I want to have a diagnostic that will tell the user whether they have configured their domain's DNS correctly for a particular service. I want to query the authoritative DNS server for their domain so that I can bypass…
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How make dns queries in dns-python as dig (with additional records section)?
I trying use dns python and want get all records with ANY type query:
import dns.name
import dns.message
import dns.query
domain = 'google.com'
name_server = '8.8.8.8'
domain = dns.name.from_text(domain)
if not domain.is_absolute():
domain =…
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Is it reasonable in Python to check for a specific type of exception using isinstance?
Is it reasonable in Python to catch a generic exception, then use isinstance() to detect the specific type of exception in order to handle it appropriately?
I'm playing around with the dnspython toolkit at the moment, which has a range of exceptions…
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Eventlet + DNS Python Attribute Error: module "dns.rdtypes" has no attribute ANY
I know that someone will face this problem. I had this problem today, but I could fix it promptly, and I want to share my solution:
Problem:
from flask_socketio import SocketIO
You will receive an output error with something like:
Attribute Error:…
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dnspython3 remove host from A record
Consider this scenario: With nsupdate I'm able to remove IP from a A record using following method:
update delete test-record.mydomain.com 60 A 172.16.1.4
This is my naive implementation with dnspython, where bind_host is our bind server,…
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returning 'A' DNS record in dnspython
I am using dnspython to get the 'A' record and return the result (IP address for a given domain).
I have this simple testing python script:
import dns.resolver
def resolveDNS():
domain = "google.com"
resolver = dns.resolver.Resolver();
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dnspython - get AAAA, A, NS and other records with one query
I'm trying to build fast script for parsing all DNS records for a single domain name. The 'ANY' command seems to do the trick, but I have strange problems with TTLs. When using ANY like this
domain = dns.name.from_text(domain)
nameserver =…
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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnspython'
I am trying to import the module dnspython in a python 3.6 script using import dnspython.
pip3 freeze shows that the package is installed but I keep getting the error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnspython'
I have tried:
pip3 install…
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Python DNS resolver and original TTL
I need to get original TTL for dns record on each query.
DNS resolver shows original ttl only at first query. It shows time to reset cache on each next query.
>>> answer = dns.resolver.query('www.stackoverflow.com')
>>> print…
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How to configure mypy to ignore a stub file for a specific module?
I installed a "dnspython" package with "pip install dnspython" under Ubuntu 22.10 and made a following short script:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import dns.zone
import dns.query
zone = dns.zone.Zone("example.net")
dns.query.inbound_xfr("10.0.0.1",…
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Detecting orphaned subdomain using dnspython
I am trying to figure out how I can utilize dnspython to detect orphaned subdomains. To explain this problem, let us consider an example scenario:
A company DNStest owns the domain example.com
Now the blog team and HR team at the company DNStest…
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How can I get the hostname, aliases, ip address, and canonical name of a device (without asking a library to read /etc/hosts) using python?
I want to get these fields about a device given an identifier:
hostname, aliases, ip address, & canonical name
I can get these by using socket:
socket.gethostbyaddr('machine-name')
However, every socket call opens the hosts file (/etc/hosts) and…
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