pydns

A fully python 3 implementation of a DNS server

Notes

• At the moment the only records supported are IPV4 A records (however the main codebase is there to support others)
• TTL will be set to 0 as not to corrupt cache with bad records, in the future this can be changed
• Sometimes must run as root/admin to bind port 53 (any port < 1000)
• This "server" only supports UDP based DNS requests (ATM), and will not make actual DNS queries to retrieve actual results: the intention of this "server" is to send fake addresses back to clients that send requests to it based on the contents of the given hosts.txt file

Hosts

You can setup hosts in a hosts.txt file in the format

DOMAIN IP

Example

test.com 127.0.0.1
google.com 216.58.212.110

Run

Must use python 3

python main.py

usage: main.py [-h] [-f HOSTS] [-a ADDRESS] [-p PORT] [-d]

A python DNS server

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f HOSTS, --hosts HOSTS
                        The file to load hosts from
  -a ADDRESS, --address ADDRESS
                        Address to bind
  -p PORT, --port PORT  Port to bind
  -d, --debug           Print debug messages

Testing

Windows

1. Open nslookup
2. Enter SET debug
3. Optional enter SET TYPE=ALL
4. Enter server 127.0.0.1 or whatever IP you bound to (must be using port 53)
5. Query a domain name you have in your hosts.txt configuration

Linux

drill @127.0.0.1 domain

See the drill manpage for more info

License

MIT license