dns-observe 0.7.3

a simple client to observe dns pollution network situation under Great Firewall.

dns-observe

a simple client to observe dns pollution network situation under The Great Firewall of China.

Features

• Pure Python implementation with no third-party dependencies
• Uses raw UDP sockets and implements DNS protocol parsing per RFC 1035
• Listens continuously for a configurable time window to capture multiple responses
• Box-drawing character output for visually grouping multiple answers

Supported Query Types

Type	Status	Description
A	✅ Supported	IPv4 address records
AAAA	✅ Supported	IPv6 address records
CNAME	✅ Supported	Canonical name records
TXT	✅ Supported	Text records
HTTPS	🚧 incomplete	HTTPS service binding records
NS	📝 Planned	Name server records
MX	📝 Planned	Mail exchange records

Installing

Install and update using pip: pip install dns-observe

usage

cli

> dns-observe -h
usage: dns-observe [-h] [-s DNS_SERVER] [-q {A,AAAA,CNAME,TXT,HTTPS}] [-t WAIT_TIME] [--transaction-id TRANSACTION_ID] [-v] domain

Observing DNS pollution

positional arguments:
  domain                query domain

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s, --dns_server DNS_SERVER
                        DNS server (default: 1.1.1.1)
  -q, --query_type {A,AAAA,CNAME,TXT,HTTPS}
                        DNS record type (default: A)
  -t, --wait_time WAIT_TIME
                        socket reception duration in seconds (default: 5)
  -id, --transaction-id TRANSACTION_ID
                        DNS transaction ID (0=random, 1-65535=fixed) (default: 0)
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

python:

> python -m dns_observe api.openai.com

from dns_observe import DNSQuery, RecordType
dns = DNSQuery('1.1.1.1')
dns.query('api.openai.com')
dns.query('claude.ai', RecordType.AAAA)

output:

- Time: 2024-11-22 11:18:16.977688, Name: api.openai.com, TTL: 153, A: 103.56.16.112
- Time: 2024-11-22 11:18:16.978715, Name: api.openai.com, TTL: 206, A: 192.133.77.145
┌ Time: 2024-11-22 11:18:17.140652, Name: api.openai.com, TTL: 46, A: 162.159.140.245
└ Time: 2024-11-22 11:18:17.140652, Name: api.openai.com, TTL: 46, A: 172.66.0.243

How to Packaging Python Projects

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-projects/

python -m build

# testpypi
py -m twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*

# pypi
py -m twine upload dist/*

dev

> pip install -e .

test

> python tests/test_run.py