Alternative (more granular) approach to a DNS library

Less is more.

Complete and usable DNS library. All widely used Resource Records are supported, including the DNSSEC types. It follows a lean and mean philosophy. If there is stuff you should know as a DNS programmer there isn't a convenience function for it. Server side and client side programming is supported, i.e. you can build servers and resolvers with it.

We try to keep the "master" branch as sane as possible and at the bleeding edge of standards, avoiding breaking changes wherever reasonable. We support the last two versions of Go, currently: 1.5 and 1.6.

Goals

KISS;
Fast;
Small API, if its easy to code in Go, don't make a function for it.

Users

A not-so-up-to-date-list-that-may-be-actually-current:

Send pull request if you want to be listed here.

Features

UDP/TCP queries, IPv4 and IPv6;
RFC 1035 zone file parsing ($INCLUDE, $ORIGIN, $TTL and $GENERATE (for all record types) are supported;
Fast:
- Reply speed around ~ 80K qps (faster hardware results in more qps);
- Parsing RRs ~ 100K RR/s, that's 5M records in about 50 seconds;
Server side programming (mimicking the net/http package);
Client side programming;
DNSSEC: signing, validating and key generation for DSA, RSA and ECDSA;
EDNS0, NSID, Cookies;
AXFR/IXFR;
TSIG, SIG(0);
DNS over TLS: optional encrypted connection between client and server;
DNS name compression;
Depends only on the standard library.

Have fun!

Miek Gieben - 2010-2012 - miek@miek.nl

Building

Building is done with the go tool. If you have setup your GOPATH correctly, the following should work:

go get github.com/miekg/dns
go build github.com/miekg/dns

Examples

A short "how to use the API" is at the beginning of doc.go (this also will show when you call godoc github.com/miekg/dns).

Example programs can be found in the github.com/miekg/exdns repository.

Supported RFCs

all of them

103{4,5} - DNS standard
1348 - NSAP record (removed the record)
1982 - Serial Arithmetic
1876 - LOC record
1995 - IXFR
1996 - DNS notify
2136 - DNS Update (dynamic updates)
2181 - RRset definition - there is no RRset type though, just []RR
2537 - RSAMD5 DNS keys
2065 - DNSSEC (updated in later RFCs)
2671 - EDNS record
2782 - SRV record
2845 - TSIG record
2915 - NAPTR record
2929 - DNS IANA Considerations
3110 - RSASHA1 DNS keys
3225 - DO bit (DNSSEC OK)
340{1,2,3} - NAPTR record
3445 - Limiting the scope of (DNS)KEY
3597 - Unknown RRs
403{3,4,5} - DNSSEC + validation functions
4255 - SSHFP record
4343 - Case insensitivity
4408 - SPF record
4509 - SHA256 Hash in DS
4592 - Wildcards in the DNS
4635 - HMAC SHA TSIG
4701 - DHCID
4892 - id.server
5001 - NSID
5155 - NSEC3 record
5205 - HIP record
5702 - SHA2 in the DNS
5936 - AXFR
5966 - TCP implementation recommendations
6605 - ECDSA
6725 - IANA Registry Update
6742 - ILNP DNS
6840 - Clarifications and Implementation Notes for DNS Security
6844 - CAA record
6891 - EDNS0 update
6895 - DNS IANA considerations
6975 - Algorithm Understanding in DNSSEC
7043 - EUI48/EUI64 records
7314 - DNS (EDNS) EXPIRE Option
7553 - URI record
7858 - DNS over TLS: Initiation and Performance Considerations (draft)
7873 - Domain Name System (DNS) Cookies (draft-ietf-dnsop-cookies)
xxxx - EDNS0 DNS Update Lease (draft)

Loosely based upon

ldns
NSD
Net::DNS
GRONG

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