DNS Shark
DNS Shark is a simple domain name resolver.
At the moment, DNS Shark is capable of resolving domain names to either an IPv4 or IPv6 address. In addition, DNS Shark can provide verbose tracing output, if desired.
DNS Shark is currently only able to handle A, AAAA, NS, and CNAME resource record types. Thus, any name resolution process that involves other resource record types is currently unsupported, although I wish to add complete handling of all resource record types in the future.
DNS Shark has been developed with MyPy and, thus, it strives to provide complete static type annotation for all the code.
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Installation
You can install DNS Shark from PyPI:
pip install dns_shark
DNS Shark is supported on Python 3.6 and above.
How to use
DNS Shark is a command line application, named dns_shark.
To resolve a domain name, call the program with two required arguments:
- The IP address of a DNS server. (The domain name resolution process will begin with this specified DNS server.)
- The domain name you wish to resolve.
A simple domain name resolution for www.google.com.
$ dns_shark 199.7.83.42 www.google.com
Answers:
www.google.com 300 A 172.217.3.196
If you want to resolve the domain name to IPv6 addresses, instead of IPv4 addresses, then specify the --ipv6 1 option.
$ dns_shark 199.7.83.42 www.google.com --ipv6 1
Answers:
www.google.com 300 AAAA 2607:f8b0:400a:809::2004
If you want verbose tracing information of the name resolution process, specify the --verbose 1 option.
$ dns_shark 199.7.83.42 www.google.com --verbose 1
Query ID: 25408 www.google.com A --> 199.7.83.42
Response ID: 25408 Authoritative = False
Answers (0)
Name Servers (13)
com 172800 NS a.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS b.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS c.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS d.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS e.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS f.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS g.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS h.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS i.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS j.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS k.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS l.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS m.gtld-servers.net
Additional Information (14)
a.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.5.6.30
b.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.33.14.30
c.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.26.92.30
d.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.31.80.30
e.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.12.94.30
f.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.35.51.30
g.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.42.93.30
h.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.54.112.30
i.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.43.172.30
j.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.48.79.30
k.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.52.178.30
l.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.41.162.30
m.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.55.83.30
a.gtld-servers.net 172800 AAAA 2001:503:a83e::2:30
Query ID: 50458 www.google.com A --> 192.5.6.30
Response ID: 50458 Authoritative = False
Answers (0)
Name Servers (4)
google.com 172800 NS ns2.google.com
google.com 172800 NS ns1.google.com
google.com 172800 NS ns3.google.com
google.com 172800 NS ns4.google.com
Additional Information (8)
ns2.google.com 172800 AAAA 2001:4860:4802:34::a
ns2.google.com 172800 A 216.239.34.10
ns1.google.com 172800 AAAA 2001:4860:4802:32::a
ns1.google.com 172800 A 216.239.32.10
ns3.google.com 172800 AAAA 2001:4860:4802:36::a
ns3.google.com 172800 A 216.239.36.10
ns4.google.com 172800 AAAA 2001:4860:4802:38::a
ns4.google.com 172800 A 216.239.38.10
Query ID: 46368 www.google.com A --> 216.239.34.10
Response ID: 46368 Authoritative = True
Answers (1)
www.google.com 300 A 172.217.3.196
Name Servers (0)
Additional Information (0)
Answers:
www.google.com 300 A 172.217.3.196
These options can also be specified together.
$ dns_shark 199.7.83.42 www.google.com --verbose 1 --ipv6 1
Query ID: 18404 www.google.com AAAA --> 199.7.83.42
Response ID: 18404 Authoritative = False
Answers (0)
Name Servers (13)
com 172800 NS a.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS b.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS c.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS d.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS e.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS f.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS g.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS h.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS i.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS j.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS k.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS l.gtld-servers.net
com 172800 NS m.gtld-servers.net
Additional Information (14)
a.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.5.6.30
b.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.33.14.30
c.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.26.92.30
d.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.31.80.30
e.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.12.94.30
f.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.35.51.30
g.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.42.93.30
h.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.54.112.30
i.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.43.172.30
j.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.48.79.30
k.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.52.178.30
l.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.41.162.30
m.gtld-servers.net 172800 A 192.55.83.30
a.gtld-servers.net 172800 AAAA 2001:503:a83e::2:30
Query ID: 36919 www.google.com AAAA --> 192.5.6.30
Response ID: 36919 Authoritative = False
Answers (0)
Name Servers (4)
google.com 172800 NS ns2.google.com
google.com 172800 NS ns1.google.com
google.com 172800 NS ns3.google.com
google.com 172800 NS ns4.google.com
Additional Information (8)
ns2.google.com 172800 AAAA 2001:4860:4802:34::a
ns2.google.com 172800 A 216.239.34.10
ns1.google.com 172800 AAAA 2001:4860:4802:32::a
ns1.google.com 172800 A 216.239.32.10
ns3.google.com 172800 AAAA 2001:4860:4802:36::a
ns3.google.com 172800 A 216.239.36.10
ns4.google.com 172800 AAAA 2001:4860:4802:38::a
ns4.google.com 172800 A 216.239.38.10
Query ID: 35735 www.google.com AAAA --> 216.239.34.10
Response ID: 35735 Authoritative = True
Answers (1)
www.google.com 300 AAAA 2607:f8b0:400a:809::2004
Name Servers (0)
Additional Information (0)
Answers:
www.google.com 300 AAAA 2607:f8b0:400a:809::2004
You can also call DNS Shark in your own Python code, by importing from the dns_resolver package:
>>> from dns_shark.dns_resolver import Resolver
>>> records = Resolver.ask('www.google.com', '199.7.83.42')
>>> print(records)
[ResourceRecord(name: www.google.com, type: 1, class: 1, ttl: 300, rdlength: 4, rdata: 172.217.3.196)]
