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msys.dnsLookup

msys.dnsLookup

Last updated March 2020

Name

msys.dnsLookup — Perform a DNS lookup

Synopsis

msys.dnsLookup(name, recordtype, options);

name: string
recordtype: string (optional)
options: table (optional)

Description

Perform a DNS lookup. The parameters are as follows:

  • name

  • recordtype – If not specified, recordtype defaults to A. Otherwise, it is a string from the following list:

    • A Lookup the IPv4 address

    • AAAA Lookup the IPv6 address

    • TXT Lookup a TXT record

    • MX Lookup an MX record

    • PTR Lookup a PTR record

    • NS Lookup an NS record

    Warning

    If recordtype is passed an invalid value, then an exception is thrown. In this case, the inbound session will return a 421 error.

  • options – Table with the following keys:

    • priority – Either true or false. If unspecified, false is assumed.

    • server – Optional alternate DNS server to query instead of the system default resolver

Because this function is in the msys namespace, an explicit require('msys') is not necessary.

This function returns the following:

  • On success, the return value is a table containing the results.

    For records with a preference value, if priority is set to true, the values returned are themselves tables with the first element being the preference value and the second element the string value. Otherwise, the values returned are just the string values. Regardless of the value of the priority setting, the returned records are ordered based on their preference, with the "best" record first. For other records, the values are simply string values that are ordered as they appear in the DNS response.

  • For a failed lookup, two values are returned:

    • nil to indicate error

    • errmsg the error message

The idiom for performing a DNS lookup is:

local results, errmsg, result;

results, errmsg = msys.dnsLookup('messagesystems.com', 'A');

if results == nil then
  print("ERROR: " .. errmsg);
  return;
end

if results ~= nil then
    for k,v in ipairs(results) do
      print("key: " .. k .. "and value: " .. v)
    end
end

Note

Results of msys.dnsLookup() invocations in your policy scripts can also be queried from the system console by using dns_cache stats.

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