The dnspython module as a tool for extracting information from DNS servers

In this section, you will learn how to obtain information from DNS servers with the dnspython module.

Working with dnspython

The IP address can be translated into human-readable strings called domain names. DNS is a big topic in the world of networking. In this section, we will create a DNS client in Python, and see how this client will talk to the server using Wireshark.

A few DNS client libraries are available from PyPI. We will focus on the dnspython library, which is available at http://www.dnspython.org.

You can install this library by using either the easy_install command or the pip command:

$ pip install dnspython

In this practical example, we...