silverwind / root-hints

Provides IP addresses of the DNS root server, aka root hints

root-hints

Provides IP addresses of the DNS root servers, also known as root hints.

Installation

$ npm i root-hints

Usage

const rootHints = require('root-hints');

rootHints('A');
// ['198.41.0.4', '192.228.79.201', ...]

rootHints('AAAA');
// ['2001:503:BA3E::2:30', '2001:500:84::B', ...]

rootHints();
// [{ A: '198.41.0.4', AAAA: '2001:503:ba3e::2:30', name: 'a.root-servers.net' }, ...]

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root-hints's Issues

Add a parser

A parser for http://www.internic.net/domain/named.root will be needed for easy updating.

Add a way to retrieve the name of the root servers

The source defines a root server like this:

.                        3600000  IN  NS    A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      A     198.41.0.4
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.      3600000      AAAA  2001:503:BA3E::2:30

It would be a nice addition to return an object containing properies like this:

"A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET" : { "A": "198.41.0.4", "AAAA": "2001:503:BA3E::2:30" }