Is there a way to query the DNS for a particular a txt record given the domain name from app engine .. I looked into pydns, but then “socket” is not available on app engine ..
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Is there a way to query the DNS for a particular a txt record given the domain name from app engine .. I looked into pydns, but then “socket” is not available on app engine ..
You cannot use sockets from AppEngine; you can only use higher level interfaces (namely http/https through
urllib).You could use an existing website / web service such as this (queried via urllib):
http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php
But it’s a bit of a kludge.