DNS Queries from Python?

Fri Sep 8 16:56:31 EDT 2000

Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> writes:

> I realise I could do os.popen("nslookup ..."), and then hack around
> the the ensuing command output, but something a little
> more direct would be helpful.  I don't see a dnslib module :-(

The Vaults of Parnassus mention a few ones:

  1. adns-python 0.0.0   [2000-03-06 12:45] 
         Interface to adns resolver. 
         License: Python license 
         Platform: Unix 
         Requires: adns 
         http://dustman.net/andy/python/adns-python 
         http://dustman.net/andy/python/adns-python/0.0.0/adns-python-0.0.0.tar.gz 
   2.DNS   [1999-10-03 01:57] 
         Domain Name Service interface. 
         http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/python/dns.tar.gz 

There is even a DNS server in Python :-)

Martin