Py-dnslib

Jul 20, 2023

Simple library to encode/decode DNS wire-format packets

dnslib is a library to encode/decode DNS wire-format packets.

The library provides

  • Support for encoding/decoding DNS packets between wire format, python objects, and Zone/DiG textual representation dnslib.dns
  • A server framework allowing the simple creation of custom DNS resolvers dnslib.server and a number of example servers created using this framework
  • A number of utilities for testing dnslib.client, dnslib.proxy, dnslib.intercept


Checkout these related ports:
  • Zonenotify - DNS notify sender written in C
  • Zonecheck - Perform consistency checks on DNS zones
  • Zkt -
  • Yandex-ddns - Use Yandex DNS as a dynamic DNS provider
  • Yadifa - Authoritative nameserver with DNSSEC capabilities
  • Wrapsrv - DNS SRV record command line wrapper
  • Whoseip - Get information about IP addresses country code and network
  • Wdns - Low-level DNS library
  • Walker - Recover zone file information from servers that use DNSSEC
  • Void-zones-tools - Prepare a list of void zones that can be readily fed into Unbound
  • Vizone - Updates the serial number in one or more zonefiles
  • Vhostcname - Synchronize DNS with server names and aliases from Apache vhost
  • Utdns - Proxy UDP/DNS to TCP/DNS
  • Updatedd - Dynamic DNS Update Client supporting multiple services
  • Unbound - Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver