unbound/libunbound/python/doc/examples/example1b.rst
george 4812f02dd0 - Added generic EDNS code for registering known EDNS option codes,
bypassing the cache response stage and uniquifying mesh states. Four EDNS
  option lists were added to module_qstate (module_qstate.edns_opts_*) to
  store EDNS options from/to front/back side.
- Added two flags to module_qstate (no_cache_lookup, no_cache_store) that
  control the modules' cache interactions.
- Added code for registering inplace callback functions. The registered
  functions can be called just before replying with local data or Chaos,
  replying from cache, replying with SERVFAIL, replying with a resolved
  query, sending a query to a nameserver. The functions can inspect the
  available data and maybe change response/query related data (i.e. append
  EDNS options).
- Updated Python module for the above.
- Updated Python documentation.



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.. _example_reverse_lookup:
Reverse DNS lookup
==================
Reverse DNS lookup involves determining the hostname associated with a given IP
address.
This example shows how reverse lookup can be done using unbound module.
For the reverse DNS records, the special domain in-addr.arpa is reserved.
For example, a host name for the IP address ``74.125.43.147`` can be obtained
by issuing a DNS query for the PTR record for address
``147.43.125.74.in-addr.arpa.``
Source code
-----------
::
#!/usr/bin/python
import unbound
ctx = unbound.ub_ctx()
ctx.resolvconf("/etc/resolv.conf")
status, result = ctx.resolve(unbound.reverse("74.125.43.147") + ".in-addr.arpa.", unbound.RR_TYPE_PTR, unbound.RR_CLASS_IN)
if status == 0 and result.havedata:
print "Result.data:", result.data.domain_list
elif status != 0:
print "Resolve error:", unbound.ub_strerror(status)
In order to simplify the python code, unbound module contains the
:meth:`unbound.reverse` function which reverses the hostname components.
This function is defined as follows::
def reverse(domain):
return '.'.join([a for a in domain.split(".")][::-1])