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Release 2.3 Mon May 6 16:18:02 EST 2002
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This is a another release of the pydns code, as originally written by
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Guido van Rossum, and with a hopefully nicer API bolted over the
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top of it by Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>.
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This code is released under a Python-style license.
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I'm making this release because there hasn't been a release in a
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heck of a long time, and it probably deserves one. I'd also like to
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do a substantial refactor of some of the guts of the code, and this
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is likely to break any code that uses the existing interface. So
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this will be a release for people who are using the existing API...
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There are several known bugs/unfinished bits
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- processing of AXFR results is not done yet.
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- doesn't do IPv6 DNS requests (type AAAA)
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- docs, aside from this file
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- all sorts of other stuff that I've probably forgotten.
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- MacOS support for discovering nameservers
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- the API that I evolved some time ago is pretty ugly. I'm going
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to re-do it, designed this time.
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- processes /etc/resolv.conf - at least as far as nameserver directives go.
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- tries multiple nameservers.
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- nicer API - see below.
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- returns results in more useful format.
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- optional timing of requests.
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- default 'show' behaviour emulates 'dig' pretty closely.
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reqobj=DNS.Request(args)
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args can be a name, in which case it takes that as the query, and/or a series
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of keyword/value args. (see below for a list of args)
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when calling the 'req()' method, it reuses the options specified in the
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DNS.Request() call as defaults.
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options are applied in the following order:
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those specified in the req() call
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or, if not specified there,
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those specified in the creation of the Request() object
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or, if not specified there,
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those specified in the DNS.defaults dictionary
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name servers can be specified in the following ways:
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- by calling DNS.DiscoverNameServers(), which will load the DNS servers
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from the system's /etc/resolv.conf file on Unix, or from the Registry
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- by specifying it as an option to the request
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- by manually setting DNS.defaults['server'] to a list of server IP
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- XXXX It should be possible to load the DNS servers on a mac os machine,
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from where-ever they've squirrelled them away
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name="host.do.main" # the object being looked up
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qtype="SOA" # the query type, eg SOA, A, MX, CNAME, ANY
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protocol="udp" # "udp" or "tcp" - usually you want "udp"
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server="nameserver" # the name of the nameserver. Note that you might
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# want to use an IP address here
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rd=1 # "recursion desired" - defaults to 1.
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other: opcode, port, ...
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There's also some convenience functions, for the lazy:
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to do a reverse lookup:
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>>> print DNS.revlookup("192.189.54.17")
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yarrina.connect.com.au
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to look up all MX records for an entry:
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>>> print DNS.mxlookup("connect.com.au")
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[(10, 'yarrina.connect.com.au'), (100, 'warrane.connect.com.au')]
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Documentation of the rest of the interface will have to wait for a
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later date. Note that the DnsAsyncRequest stuff is currently not
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working - I haven't looked too closely at why, yet.
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There's some examples in the tests/ directory - including test5.py,
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which is even vaguely useful. It looks for the SOA for a domain, checks
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that the primary NS is authoritative, then checks the nameservers
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that it believes are NSs for the domain and checks that they're
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authoritative, and that the zone serial numbers match.
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see also README.guido for the original docs.
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comments to me, anthony@interlink.com.au, or to the mailing list,
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pydns-developer@lists.sourceforge.net.
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bugs/patches to the tracker on SF -
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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=31674
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