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Mastering Python for Networking and Security

You're reading from   Mastering Python for Networking and Security Leverage Python scripts and libraries to overcome networking and security issues

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788992510
Length 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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José Manuel Ortega José Manuel Ortega
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Preface 1. Working with Python Scripting 2. System Programming Packages FREE CHAPTER 3. Socket Programming 4. HTTP Programming 5. Analyzing Network Traffic 6. Gathering Information from Servers 7. Interacting with FTP, SSH, and SNMP Servers 8. Working with Nmap Scanners 9. Connecting with the Metasploit Framework 10. Interacting with the Vulnerabilities Scanner 11. Identifying Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications 12. Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers 13. Cryptography and Steganography 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Resolving IP addresses and domains

In this chapter, we have looked at how to build sockets in Python, both oriented to connection with TCP and not oriented to connection with UDP. In this section, we'll review useful methods to get more information about an IP address or domain.

Gathering information with sockets

Useful methods to gather more information are:

  • gethostbyaddr(address): Allows us to obtain a domain name from the IP address
  • gethostbyname(hostname): Allows us to obtain an IP address from a domain name

We can get more information about these methods with the help(socket) command:

Now we are going to detail some methods related to the host, IP address, and domain resolution. For each one, we will show a simple...

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