This is a fork of a fork of Thomas Pinckney's pymds project.

• Pinckney: http://code.google.com/p/pymds/
• thekad: https://github.com/thekad/pymds

pymads is an authoritative DNS server which makes all name resolution decisions using external modules. pymads itself cannot resolve anything. Instead, it relies on plugins which convert names in client queries into responses that pymads then sends.

pymads differs from pymds in that it's designed for asynchronous service/resolution, and it does not limit itself to specific DNS zones. This allows you to use it as an "internet-wide" server. These requirements are important for the project's intended use: the DNS side of DJDNS.

This source distribution contains:

1. pymads -- The core DNS server itself.

2. pymadsfile -- A plugin for answering queries based on a text file database. This is a "source" plugin in pymads parlance. See below for the format of the database file syntax.

3. pymadsrr -- A plugin that randomizes the order of multiple A record responses. This is a "filter" plugin as opposed to a "source" plugin. Thus, it cannot resolve names to answers, only alter the answers that some "source" plugin has already provided.

pymads is tested on Python 2.6-3.3.

Unlike pymds, pymads is not intended to be used as a standalone server. pymads is intended to work as a callback-based component of a larger program, acting as a self-contained library, configured programmatically rather than through config files.

See the examples/ directory for configuration file examples.

See the issue tracker.