On Sep 30, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Michel Albert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ``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?
>
> 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 I also found pydns, but that looks fairly outdated and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.
>
> Is there not an actively maintained lightweight solution? If not, I will go
> with twisted.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Mich.
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It isn't pure python, but you would be pretty much guaranteed a maintained
solution if you use the name server lookup in your OS. Something like:
import subprocess
nsl_reslt = subprocess.Popen(['nslookup', '<insert name nere>' ],stderr
= subprocess.PIPE, stdout = subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
Hope this helps,
Bill
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