resolve domains directly against dyn nameserver (instead of system resolver)

[dyn-nsupdate.git] / client-scripts / dyn-ns-client

diff --git a/client-scripts/dyn-ns-client b/client-scripts/dyn-ns-client
index e5eb56e2f430558ae547cee744fe22b0dc9e1035..124498a8d6940133bf3ab043fa1308502af3a7b8 100755 (executable)
--- a/client-scripts/dyn-ns-client
+++ b/client-scripts/dyn-ns-client
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #==============================================================================
 
 import urllib.request, socket, sys, argparse, os, configparser, itertools, subprocess, re, ssl
+import dns, dns.resolver
 
 VERBOSE_CHANGE = 1
 VERBOSE_FULL   = 2
@@ -99,22 +100,21 @@ def getMyIPv6(config, verbose = 0):
         raise Exception("Unable to detect correct local IPv6 address")
     return getMyIP("IPv6", config, methods={'local': local}, verbose=verbose)
 
-def getCurIP(domain, family):
-    '''Return the current IP of the given <domain>. <family> can be socket.AF_INET or socket.AF_INET6.'''
+def getResolver(server):
+    '''Return a resovler with the given server (defined by DNS name)'''
+    addr = socket.getaddrinfo(server, None, family=socket.AF_INET)
+    addr = addr[0][4][0]
+    res = dns.resolver.Resolver()
+    res.nameservers = [addr]
+    return res
+
+def getCurIP(domain, rtype, res):
+    '''Return the current IP of the given <domain>. <rtype> can be A or AAAA.'''
     try:
-        addr = socket.getaddrinfo(domain, None, family=family)
-        return addr[0][4][0]
-    except socket.gaierror: # domain not found
+        return res.query(domain, rtype)[0].address
+    except dns.exception.DNSException: # domain not found
         return ""
 
-def getCurIPv4(domain):
-    '''Returns the current IPv4 address of the given domain'''
-    return getCurIP(domain, socket.AF_INET)
-
-def getCurIPv6(domain):
-    '''Returns the current IPv6 address of the given domain'''
-    return getCurIP(domain, socket.AF_INET6)
-
 def updateDomain(server, domain, ipv4, ipv6, password, config, verbose):
     '''Update the given domain, using the server, password. ipv4 or ipv6 can be None to not update that record, or strings with the respective addresses.
        Updates ae only performed if necessary.
@@ -122,8 +122,11 @@ def updateDomain(server, domain, ipv4, ipv6, password, config, verbose):
     assert ipv4 is not None or ipv6 is not None
     
     # check what the domain is currently mapped to
-    curIPv4 = getCurIPv4(domain)
-    curIPv6 = getCurIPv6(domain)
+    res = getResolver(server)
+    if verbose >= VERBOSE_FULL:
+        print("Resolving names using {}".format(res.nameservers))
+    curIPv4 = getCurIP(domain, 'A', res)
+    curIPv6 = getCurIP(domain, 'AAAA', res)
     if verbose >= VERBOSE_FULL:
         print("Current status of domain {} is: IPv4 address '{}', IPv6 address '{}'".format(domain, curIPv4, curIPv6))