14 DNS: Domain Name Service Queries

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12 | Base 64: Encoding and Decoding
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► | 14 | DNS: Domain Name Service Queries

14.1 | Functions
14.2 | DNS Unit
14.3 | DNS Signature

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14.1`` Functions
dns-get-address
dns-get-name
dns-get-mail-exchanger
dns-find-nameserver
14.2`` DNS Unit
dns@
14.3`` DNS Signature
dns^

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### 14`` DNS: Domain Name Service Queries

(require net/dns)

The net/dns library provides utilities for looking up hostnames.
Thanks to Eduardo Cavazos and Jason Crowe for repairs and improvements.

#### 14.1`` Functions

> > procedure
> > (dns-get-address |  | nameserver |  |  |  |
> > |  | address |  |  |  |
> > | [ | #:ipv6? ipv6?]) |  | → |  | string?
> nameserver : string?
> address : string?
> ipv6? : any/c = #f

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.

If ipv6? is a true value, then the numerical address that is returned will be an IPv6 address. If no AAAA record exists, an error will be raised.

> procedure (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.

> procedure (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".

> procedure (dns-find-nameserver) → (or/c string? false/c)

Attempts to find the address of a nameserver on the present system. On Unix and Mac OS X, this procedure parses "/etc/resolv.conf" to extract the first nameserver address. On Windows, it runs nslookup.exe.

#### 14.2`` DNS Unit

> > > dns@ and dns^ are deprecated. They exist for backward-compatibility and will likely be removed in the future. New code should use the net/dns module.

(require net/dns-unit)

> value dns@ : unit?

Imports nothing, exports dns^.

#### 14.3`` DNS Signature

(require net/dns-sig)

> signature dns^ : signature

Includes everything exported by the net/dns module.

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