new to dnspython and notify

[Brett Carr]

I'm quite new to python and very new to dnspython and in fact at the moment I am trying to decide on whether I should go down the route of dnspython or dnsruby, opinions on that are very welcome (assuming any of you have tried both) For the moment I am interested in how easy it is to send a notify using dnspython can anybody show me how this would be done please. Is dnspython still under active development (I don't believe dnsruby is)

Thanks

Brett

[Anand Buddhdev]

On 12/08/15 18:54, Brett Carr wrote:

Hi Brett,

I can't comment on dnsruby, as I've never really used ruby. However,
dnspython is quite nice and easy to use. Doing notify from it is
trivial, for example:

import dns.message
import dns.rdatatype
import dns.opcode
import dns.flags
import dns.query

notify = dns.message.make_query('zonename', dns.rdatatype.SOA)
notify.set_opcode(dns.opcode.NOTIFY)
notify.flags -= dns.flags.RD

response = dns.query.udp(notify, '1.2.3.4', timeout=5)

You can then examine "response" to see the client's response to the
notify message.

Regards,
Anand

[Brett]

Hi,

Thanks Anand this worked a 'treat' if anybody has any other interesting/useful dns python examples I'd love to see them.

Also very interested to here dns python vs dns ruby opinions.

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Brett