[New-bugs-announce] [issue45683] dns.asyncresolver ignores nameserver parameter

[James Lawrie]

New submission from James Lawrie <james at silvermouse.net>:

The DNS async resolver allows you to specify a list of nameservers to use, but they are ignored and the system nameservers are used instead.

Test code below demonstrating the issue:

# cat test.py
import dns.asyncresolver
import asyncio
from pprint import pprint
 
 
async def main(domains):
    results = await get_ips_bulk(domains)
    results = [item for sublist in results for item in sublist]
    pprint(results)
 
async def get_ips_bulk(domains):
    output = [get_ips(domain) for domain in domains]
    return await asyncio.gather(*output, return_exceptions=True)
 
async def get_ips(domain):
    res = dns.asyncresolver.Resolver()
    res.nameserver = ["1.1.1.1"]
    results = []
    try:
        ipv4 = await res.resolve(domain, 'A')
        for result in ipv4:
            results.append(['A', domain, result.to_text()])
    except:
        results.append(['A', domain, 'n/a'])
    try:
        ipv6 = await res.resolve(domain, 'AAAA')
        results.append(['AAAA', domain, result.to_text()])
    except:
        results.append(['AAAA', domain, 'n/a'])
 
    return results
  
domains = ['python.org']
asyncio.run(main(domains))
 

It should use 1.1.1.1 as the nameserver but watching tcpdump it's using 8.8.8.8 per /etc/resolv.conf:

# tcpdump -n port 53 &
[1] 16751
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
# python3 test.py
19:05:02.750458 IP x.x.x.x.44173 > 8.8.8.8.53: 46143+ A? python.org. (28)
19:05:02.756265 IP 8.8.8.8.53 > x.x.x.x.44173: 46143 1/0/0 A 138.197.63.241 (44)
19:05:02.757392 IP x.x.x.x.37827 > 8.8.8.8.53: 17493+ AAAA? python.org. (28)
19:05:02.765797 IP 8.8.8.8.53 > x.x.x.x.37827: 17493 0/1/0 (115)
[['A', 'python.org', '138.197.63.241'], ['AAAA', 'python.org', 'n/a']]
# fg
tcpdump -n port 53
^C
# grep -P "^nameserver" /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 8.8.8.8

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components: asyncio
messages: 405460
nosy: asvetlov, james2, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: dns.asyncresolver ignores nameserver parameter
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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