This project provides a simple high level api for performing DNS lookups. The actual DNS protocol implementation is provided by either py3dns/pydns or dnspython, depending on which of these is available. Additionally, responses are cached to improve the performance of multiple queries for the same value.
This code was originally written by Stuart D. Gathman as part of the pymilter project
Dnsplug depends on either pydns/py3dns or dnspython (attempted in
that order). If running in python2, the typing module is also needed
in your virtualenv, run pip install tox and then invoke tox. This
expects a python 2.7 and python 3.6 to be available.
Short answer: to be able to correctly test with tox, long answer here
- As the copied code from pymilter notes, it is a bit inconsistent that AAAA records are returned as binary strings but A is returned as a dot separated octet ascii string. Let's figure out something better.
- Figure out a way to do testing that doesn't depend on internet connectivity. Let's mock the remote end.
- Testing of various failure modes.
- Set up automated testing somewhere (Travis CI?)