13 DNS: Domain Name Service Queries
The net/dns library provides
utilities for looking up hostnames.
Thanks to Eduardo Cavazos and Jason Crowe for repairs and
improvements.
13.1 Functions
| (dns-get-address nameserver address) → string? |
| nameserver : string? |
| address : string? |
Consults the specified nameserver (normally a numerical address like
"128.42.1.30") to obtain a numerical address for the given
Internet address.
The query record sent to the DNS server includes the "recursive" bit, but dns-get-address also implements a recursive search itself in case the server does not provide this optional feature.
| (dns-get-name nameserver address) → string? |
| nameserver : string? |
| address : string? |
Consults the specified nameserver (normally a numerical address like
"128.42.1.30") to obtain a name for the given numerical
address.
| (dns-get-mail-exchanger nameserver address) → string? |
| nameserver : string? |
| address : string? |
Consults the specified nameserver to obtain the address for a mail
exchanger the given mail host address. For example, the mail exchanger
for "ollie.cs.rice.edu" might be "cs.rice.edu".
Attempts to find the address of a nameserver on the present system.
Under Unix, this procedure parses "/etc/resolv.conf" to
extract the first nameserver address. Under Windows, it runs
nslookup.exe.
13.2 DNS Unit
| (require net/dns-unit) |
| dns@ : unit? |
Imports nothing, exports dns^.
13.3 DNS Signature
| (require net/dns-sig) |
| dns^ : signature |
Includes everything exported by the net/dns module.