I know that someone will face this problem. I had this problem today, but I could fix it promptly, and I want to share my solution: Problem: from flask_socketio import SocketIO You will receive an...

As part of a tool I'm writing I want to have a diagnostic that will tell the user whether they have configured their domain's DNS correctly for a particular service. I want to query the authoritati...

I am trying to import the module dnspython in a python 3.6 script using import dnspython. pip3 freeze shows that the package is installed but I keep getting the error ModuleNotFoundError: No modul...

When using dns.resolver.Resolver() it returns a warning that I should use dns.resolver.Resolver.resolve () When I changed it, it further gives error: TypeError: resolve() missing 2 required positio...

Consider this scenario: With nsupdate I'm able to remove IP from a A record using following method: update delete test-record.mydomain.com 60 A 172.16.1.4 This is my naive implementation with dn...

I am using dnspython to get the 'A' record and return the result (IP address for a given domain). I have this simple testing python script: import dns.resolver def resolveDNS(): domain = "googl...

I have a requirement to have a dns query function to query a server for various records. I figured out how to get the MX record (most of the examples show this), A record and NS record. How do I ge...

Is it reasonable in Python to catch a generic exception, then use isinstance() to detect the specific type of exception in order to handle it appropriately? I'm playing around with the dnspython t...

I trying use dns python and want get all records with ANY type query: import dns.name import dns.message import dns.query domain = 'google.com' name_server = '8.8.8.8' domain = dns.name.from_tex...

I need to get original TTL for dns record on each query. DNS resolver shows original ttl only at first query. It shows time to reset cache on each next query. >>> answer = dns.resolver.qu...

I'm trying to build fast script for parsing all DNS records for a single domain name. The 'ANY' command seems to do the trick, but I have strange problems with TTLs. When using ANY like this domai...

I'd like to tell urllib2.urlopen (or a custom opener) to use 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) to resolve addresses. I wouldn't change my /etc/resolv.conf, however. One possible solution is to use a tool like dn...

I have a small script that checks a large list of domains for their MX records, everything works fine but when the script finds a domain with no record, it takes quite a long time to skip to the ne...