On Monday, 30 September 2013 14:54:41 UTC+2, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> Hello,
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> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 04:42:29AM -0700, Michel Albert wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > ``socket.gethostbyname`` sends the DNS resolution query to the DNS server
> > specified by the OS. Is there an easy way to send a query to a *different*
> > server?
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> > I see that twisted.names allows you to do this, but, having all of twisted
> > as dependency to my project when all I need to do is a simple DNS query
> > seems a bit extreme. I also found pydns, but that looks fairly outdated and
> > unmaintained.
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> > Is there not an actively maintained lightweight solution? If not, I will go
> > with twisted.
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> there is a dns modul for Python (I don't know is it part of
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> standard Python library or not), on most Linux distribution you
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> can find it, eg. in Debian it's called python-dnspython.
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> It can handle different nameserver, than OS knows - here is a
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> sample code:
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> import dns.resolver
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> r = dns.resolver.Resolver()
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> r.namerservers = ['127.0.0.1']
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> # or any other IP, in my case I'm using PDNS, which have two
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> # parts: a recursor and a resolver; recursor allows requests only
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> # on localhost
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> mxservers = r.query("python.org", 'MX').response
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> hth,
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> a.
Indeed, this looks much nicer than both twisted or pydns. I think I'll go with
that one. Thanks a lot!
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