dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports almost all record types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0.

dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.

To see a few of the ways dnspython can be used, look in the examples/ directory.

dnspython is a utility to work with DNS, /etc/hosts is thus not used. For simple forward DNS lookups, it's better to use socket.gethostbyname().

dnspython originated at Nominum where it was developed to facilitate the testing of DNS software.

• Many distributions have dnspython packaged for you, so you should check there first.
• If you have pip installed, you can do pip install dnspython
• If not just download the source file and unzip it, then run sudo python setup.py install

This is the development verison of dnspython 2.0.0

Python 2.x support ended with the release of 1.16.0. dnspython 2.0.0 and later only support Python 3.4 and later.

The ChangeLog has been discontinued. Please see the git history for detailed change information.