[Unbound-users] Using pyunbound with chaos

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Chris,

Chris Hills wrote:
> Wouter
> 
> I am using the unbound library, but not the server.

right

> I think you misunderstand my objective.

Tell me more :-)

> Whilst the normal operation of DNS is to discover a record recursively,
> there are some special records that are not part of the normal hierarchy
> and exist uniquely on each DNS server - for example, version.bind.,
> version.server., hostname.bind. and id.server. (all chaos txt).
> Basically, I am trying to find the python code using pyunbound that does
> the equivalent the following command:-
> 
> dig @[dns-server] version.server. chaos txt

Unbound can do this sort of thing, as a server with root hints for class
chaos.  However, the config syntax and libunbound functions all have a
default of class IN, and there is no way that I see to tell libunbound
where to send queries for class CHAOS.

> This will return the version of the software that is running on the dns
> server.

Or, well, whatever the operator configured, see the unbound options
'version' and 'hide-version'.

Perhaps you want this piece of python? :
	(cin, cout) = os.popen2("dig @" + dnsserver + " version.bind chaos txt")
	result = cout.readlines()
	cin.close()
	cout.close()
	print result

Best regards,
   Wouter

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