A library to encode/decode DNS wire-format packets supporting Python 3.6 and above.
The library provides:
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Support for encoding/decoding DNS packets between wire format, python objects, and Zone/DiG textual representation (dnslib.dns)
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A server framework allowing the simple creation of custom DNS resolvers (dnslib.server) and a number of example servers created using this framework
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A number of utilities for testing (dnslib.client, dnslib.proxy, dnslib.intercept)
The key DNS packet handling classes are in dnslib.dns and map to the standard DNS packet sections:
- DNSRecord - container for DNS packet. Contains:
- DNSHeader
- Question section containing zero or more DNSQuestion objects
- Answer section containing zero or more RR objects
- Authority section containing zero or more RR objects
- Additional section containing zero or more RR objects
- DNS RRs (resource records) contain an RR header and an RD object)
- Specific RD types are implemented as subclasses of RD
- DNS labels are represented by a DNSLabel class - in most cases this handles conversion to/from textual representation however does support arbitatry labels via a tuple of bytes objects
To decode a DNS packet:
>>> packet = binascii.unhexlify(b'd5ad818000010005000000000377777706676f6f676c6503636f6d0000010001c00c0005000100000005000803777777016cc010c02c0001000100000005000442f95b68c02c0001000100000005000442f95b63c02c0001000100000005000442f95b67c02c0001000100000005000442f95b93')
>>> d = DNSRecord.parse(packet)
>>> d
<DNS Header: id=0xd5ad type=RESPONSE opcode=QUERY flags=RD,RA rcode='NOERROR' q=1 a=5 ns=0 ar=0>
<DNS Question: 'www.google.com.' qtype=A qclass=IN>
<DNS RR: 'www.google.com.' rtype=CNAME rclass=IN ttl=5 rdata='www.l.google.com.'>
<DNS RR: 'www.l.google.com.' rtype=A rclass=IN ttl=5 rdata='66.249.91.104'>
<DNS RR: 'www.l.google.com.' rtype=A rclass=IN ttl=5 rdata='66.249.91.99'>
<DNS RR: 'www.l.google.com.' rtype=A rclass=IN ttl=5 rdata='66.249.91.103'>
<DNS RR: 'www.l.google.com.' rtype=A rclass=IN ttl=5 rdata='66.249.91.147'>
The default text representation of the DNSRecord is in zone file format:
>>> print(d)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54701
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com. 5 IN CNAME www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com. 5 IN A 66.249.91.104
www.l.google.com. 5 IN A 66.249.91.99
www.l.google.com. 5 IN A 66.249.91.103
www.l.google.com. 5 IN A 66.249.91.147
To create a DNS Request Packet:
>>> d = DNSRecord.question("google.com")
(This is equivalent to: d = DNSRecord(q=DNSQuestion("google.com") )
>>> d
<DNS Header: id=... type=QUERY opcode=QUERY flags=RD rcode='NOERROR' q=1 a=0 ns=0 ar=0>
<DNS Question: 'google.com.' qtype=A qclass=IN>
>>> str(DNSRecord.parse(d.pack())) == str(d)
True
>>> print(d)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: ...
;; flags: rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN A
>>> d = DNSRecord.question("google.com","MX")
(This is equivalent to: d = DNSRecord(q=DNSQuestion("google.com",QTYPE.MX) )
>>> str(DNSRecord.parse(d.pack())) == str(d)
True
>>> print(d)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: ...
;; flags: rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN MX
To create a DNS Response Packet:
>>> d = DNSRecord(DNSHeader(qr=1,aa=1,ra=1),
... q=DNSQuestion("abc.com"),
... a=RR("abc.com",rdata=A("1.2.3.4")))
>>> d
<DNS Header: id=... type=RESPONSE opcode=QUERY flags=AA,RD,RA rcode='NOERROR' q=1 a=1 ns=0 ar=0>
<DNS Question: 'abc.com.' qtype=A qclass=IN>
<DNS RR: 'abc.com.' rtype=A rclass=IN ttl=0 rdata='1.2.3.4'>
>>> str(DNSRecord.parse(d.pack())) == str(d)
True
>>> print(d)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: ...
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;abc.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
abc.com. 0 IN A 1.2.3.4
It is also possible to create RRs from a string in zone file format
>>> RR.fromZone("abc.com IN A 1.2.3.4")
[<DNS RR: 'abc.com.' rtype=A rclass=IN ttl=0 rdata='1.2.3.4'>]
(Note: this produces a list of RRs which should be unpacked if being
passed to add_answer/add_auth/add_ar etc)
>>> q = DNSRecord.question("abc.com")
>>> a = q.reply()
>>> a.add_answer(*RR.fromZone("abc.com 60 A 1.2.3.4"))
>>> print(a)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: ...
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;abc.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
abc.com. 60 IN A 1.2.3.4
The zone file can contain multiple entries and supports most of the normal format defined in RFC1035 (specifically not $INCLUDE)
>>> z = '''
... $TTL 300
... $ORIGIN abc.com
...
... @ IN MX 10 mail.abc.com.
... www IN A 1.2.3.4
... IN TXT "Some Text"
... mail IN CNAME www.abc.com.
... '''
>>> for rr in RR.fromZone(textwrap.dedent(z)):
... print(rr)
abc.com. 300 IN MX 10 mail.abc.com.
www.abc.com. 300 IN A 1.2.3.4
www.abc.com. 300 IN TXT "Some Text"
mail.abc.com. 300 IN CNAME www.abc.com.
To create a skeleton reply to a DNS query:
>>> q = DNSRecord(q=DNSQuestion("abc.com",QTYPE.ANY))
>>> a = q.reply()
>>> a.add_answer(RR("abc.com",QTYPE.A,rdata=A("1.2.3.4"),ttl=60))
>>> str(DNSRecord.parse(a.pack())) == str(a)
True
>>> print(a)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: ...
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;abc.com. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
abc.com. 60 IN A 1.2.3.4
Add additional RRs:
>>> a.add_answer(RR("xxx.abc.com",QTYPE.A,rdata=A("1.2.3.4")))
>>> a.add_answer(RR("xxx.abc.com",QTYPE.AAAA,rdata=AAAA("1234:5678::1")))
>>> str(DNSRecord.parse(a.pack())) == str(a)
True
>>> print(a)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: ...
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;abc.com. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
abc.com. 60 IN A 1.2.3.4
xxx.abc.com. 0 IN A 1.2.3.4
xxx.abc.com. 0 IN AAAA 1234:5678::1
It is also possible to create a reply from a string in zone file format:
>>> q = DNSRecord(q=DNSQuestion("abc.com",QTYPE.ANY))
>>> a = q.replyZone("abc.com 60 IN CNAME xxx.abc.com")
>>> print(a)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: ...
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;abc.com. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
abc.com. 60 IN CNAME xxx.abc.com.
>>> str(DNSRecord.parse(a.pack())) == str(a)
True
>>> q = DNSRecord(q=DNSQuestion("abc.com",QTYPE.ANY))
>>> a = q.replyZone(textwrap.dedent(z))
>>> print(a)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: ...
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;abc.com. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
abc.com. 300 IN MX 10 mail.abc.com.
www.abc.com. 300 IN A 1.2.3.4
www.abc.com. 300 IN TXT "Some Text"
mail.abc.com. 300 IN CNAME www.abc.com.
To send a DNSSEC request (EDNS OPT record with DO flag & header AD flag):
>>> q = DNSRecord(q=DNSQuestion("abc.com",QTYPE.A))
>>> q.add_ar(EDNS0(flags="do",udp_len=4096))
>>> q.header.ad = 1
>>> print(q)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: ...
;; flags: rd ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;abc.com. IN A
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096
The library also includes a simple framework for generating custom DNS resolvers in dnslib.server (see module docs). In most cases this just requires implementing a custom 'resolve' method which receives a question object and returns a response.
A number of sample resolvers are provided as examples (see CLI --help):
- dnslib.fixedresolver
- Respond to all requests with fixed response
- dnslib.zoneresolver
- Respond from Zone file
- dnslib.shellresolver
- Call shell script to generate response
The library includes a number of client utilities:
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DiG like client library:
python -m dnslib.client --help
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DNS Proxy Server:
python -m dnslib.proxy --help
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Intercepting DNS Proxy Server (replace proxy responses for specified domains):
python -m dnslib.intercept --help
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- PaulC