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Please see this issue: #111
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- Fork by @FrancisTurner: https://github.com/FrancisTurner/native-node-dns (relevant comment & other repos)
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npm install native-dns
native-dns exports what should be a 1:1 mapping of the upstream node.js dns module. That is to say if it's listed in the docs it should behave similarly. If it doesn't please file an issue.
Beyond matching the upstream module, native-dns also provides a method for customizing queries.
var dns = require('native-dns');
var util = require('util');
var question = dns.Question({
name: 'www.google.com',
type: 'A',
});
var start = Date.now();
var req = dns.Request({
question: question,
server: { address: '8.8.8.8', port: 53, type: 'udp' },
timeout: 1000,
});
req.on('timeout', function () {
console.log('Timeout in making request');
});
req.on('message', function (err, answer) {
answer.answer.forEach(function (a) {
console.log(a.address);
});
});
req.on('end', function () {
var delta = (Date.now()) - start;
console.log('Finished processing request: ' + delta.toString() + 'ms');
});
req.send();
Request creation takes an object with the following fields
question
-- an instance of Question (required)server
-- defines the remote end point (required)
- as an object it should be
address
-- a string ip address (required)port
-- a number for the remote port (optional, default 53)type
-- a string indicatingudp
ortcp
(optional, defaultudp
) You do not need to indicate ipv4 or ipv6, the backend will handle that
- a string ip address
timeout
-- a number in milliseconds indicating how long to wait for the request to finish. (optional, default 4000)try_edns
-- a boolean indicating whether to use anEDNSPacket
(optional)cache
-- can be false to disable caching, or implement the cache model, or an instance of Cache but with a different store (optional, default platform.cache)
There are only two methods
send
-- sends the actual request to the remote endpointcancel
-- cancels the request and ignores any responses
Request emits the following events
message
-- This is where you get a response, passes(err, answer)
where answer is an instance ofPacket
timeout
-- Fired when the timeout is reachedcancelled
-- Fired if the request is cancelledend
-- Always fired after a request finished, regardless of disposition
If you want to customize all resolve
or lookup
s with the replacement client
stack you can modify the platform settings accessible in the top level platform
object.
Methods:
reload
-- Re-read system configuration files to populate name servers and hosts
Properties:
ready
-- Boolean whether requests are safe to transit, true after hosts and name servers are filledwatching
-- Boolean indicating if system configuration files are watched for changes, default to false (currently can only be enabled on !win32)name_servers
-- An array of servers used for resolving queries against
- Each entry is an object of
{ address: <string ip>, port: 53 }
- On win32 this is hard coded to be google dns until there's a sane way to get the data
search_path
-- An array of domains to try and append after a failed lookupattempts
-- The number of retries for a failed lookup/timeout (default: 5)timeout
-- The time each query is allowed to take before trying another server. (in milliseconds, default: 5000 (5 seconds))edns
-- Whether to try and send edns queries first (default: false)cache
-- The system wide cache used by default forlookup
andresolve
, set this to false to disable caching
Events:
ready
-- Emitted after hosts and name servers have been loadedunready
-- Emitted when hosts and name servers configuration is being reloaded.
There is also a rudimentary server implementation
var dns = require('native-dns');
var server = dns.createServer();
server.on('request', function (request, response) {
//console.log(request)
response.answer.push(dns.A({
name: request.question[0].name,
address: '127.0.0.1',
ttl: 600,
}));
response.answer.push(dns.A({
name: request.question[0].name,
address: '127.0.0.2',
ttl: 600,
}));
response.additional.push(dns.A({
name: 'hostA.example.org',
address: '127.0.0.3',
ttl: 600,
}));
response.send();
});
server.on('error', function (err, buff, req, res) {
console.log(err.stack);
});
server.serve(15353);
Server creation
createServer
andcreateUDPServer
-- both create aUDP
based server, they accept an optional object for configuration,
{ dgram_type: 'udp4' }
is the default option, the other isudp6
createTCPServer
-- creates a TCP based server
Server methods
serve(port, [address])
-- specify which port and optional address to listen onclose()
-- stop the server/close sockets.
Server events
listening
-- emitted when underlying socket is listeningclose
-- emitted when the underlying socket is closedrequest
-- emitted when a dns message is received, and the packet was successfully unpacked, passes(request, response)
- Both
request
andresponse
are instances ofPacket
when you're finished creating the response, you merely need to call.send()
and the packet will DoTheRightThing
error
-- emitted when unable to properly unpack the packet, passed(err, msg, response)
socketError
-- remap of the underlying socket for the server, passes(err, socket)
Properties:
header
id
-- request idqdcount
-- the number of questions (inferred from array size)ancount
-- the number of questions (inferred from array size)nscount
-- the number of questions (inferred from array size)arcount
-- the number of questions (inferred from array size)qr
-- is a query responseopcode
aa
-- Authoritative Answertc
-- Truncation bitrd
-- Recursion Desiredra
-- Recursion Availableres1
-- Reserved fieldres2
-- Reserved fieldres3
-- Reserved fieldrcode
-- Response Code (seeconsts.NAME_TO_RCODE
)
question
-- array ofQuestion
sanswer
-- array ofResourceRecord
sauthority
-- array ofResourceRecord
sadditional
-- array ofResourceRecord
s
Methods:
send()
-- Handles sending the packet to the right end point
A Question
is instantiated by passing an object like:
name
-- i.e. 'www.google.com' (required)type
-- Either the string representation of the record type, or the integer value, seeconsts.NAME_TO_QTYPE
(default: 'A')class
-- The class of service, default to 1 meaning internet
ResourceRecords are what populate answer
, authority
, and additional
.
This is a generic type, and each derived type inherits the following properties:
name
-- The name of the resourcetype
-- The numerical representation of the resource record typeclass
-- The numerical representation of the class of service (usually 1 for internet)ttl
-- The Time To Live for the record, in seconds
Available Types:
SOA
primary
-- stringadmin
-- stringserial
-- numberrefresh
-- numberretry
-- numberexpiration
-- numberminimum
-- number
A
andAAAA
address
-- string
MX
priority
-- numberexchange
-- string
TXT
data
-- array of strings
SRV
priority
-- numberweight
-- numberport
-- numbertarget
-- string
NS
data
-- string
CNAME
data
-- string
PTR
data
-- string
NAPTR
order
-- numberpreference
-- numberflags
-- stringservice
-- stringregexp
-- stringreplacement
-- string