Package org.xbill.DNS

Interface Summary

Resolver	Interface describing a resolver.
ResolverListener	An interface to the asynchronous resolver.
Verifier	An interface to a DNSSEC Verifier.

Class Summary

A6Record	A6 Record - maps a domain name to an IPv6 address (experimental)
AAAARecord	IPv6 Address Record - maps a domain name to an IPv6 address
Address	Routines dealing with IP addresses.
ARecord	Address Record - maps a domain name to an Internet address
Cache	A cache of DNS records.
CERTRecord	Certificate Record - Stores a certificate associated with a name.
CNAMERecord	CNAME Record - maps an alias to its real name
Credibility	Constants relating to the credibility of cached data, which is based on the data's source.
DClass	Constants and functions relating to DNS classes.
DNAMERecord	DNAME Record - maps a nonterminal alias (subtree) to a different domain
dns	A high level API for mapping queries to DNS Records.
DNSSEC	Constants and functions relating to DNSSEC (algorithm constants).
DSRecord	DS - contains a Delegation Signer record, which acts as a placeholder for KEY records in the parent zone.
ExtendedResolver	An implementation of Resolver that can send queries to multiple servers, sending the queries multiple times if necessary.
FindServer	A helper class that tries to locate name servers and the search path to be appended to unqualified names.
Flags	Constants and functions relating to DNS flags
Header	A DNS message header
HINFORecord	Host Information - describes the CPU and OS of a host
Inet6Address	Inet6Address - implementation of IPv6 address
KEYRecord	Key - contains a cryptographic public key.
KXRecord	Key Exchange - delegation of authority
LOCRecord	Location - describes the physical location of hosts, networks, subnets.
Lookup	The Lookup object issues queries to caching DNS servers.
Master	A DNS master file parser.
Message	A DNS Message.
MX_KXRecord	Implements MX and KX records, which have identical formats
MXRecord	Mail Exchange - specifies where mail to a domain is sent
Name	A representation of a domain name.
NAPTRRecord	Name Authority Pointer Record - specifies rewrite rule, that when applied to an existing string will produce a new domain.
NS_CNAME_PTRRecord	Implements NS, CNAME, PTR, and DNAME records, which have identical formats
NSRecord	Name Server Record - contains the name server serving the named zone
NXTRecord	Next name - this record contains the following name in an ordered list of names in the zone, and a set of types for which records exist for this name.
Opcode	Constants and functions relating to DNS opcodes
Options	Boolean options: bindttl - Print TTLs in BIND format multiline - Print records in multiline format noprintin - Don't print the class of a record if it's IN nohex - Don't print anything in hex (KEY flags, for example) pqdn - Allow partially qualified domain names verbose - Turn on general debugging statements verbosehmac - Print all data digested by the HMAC routines verbosemsg - Print all messages sent or received by SimpleResolver verbosecompression - Print messages related to name compression verbosebitstring - Print messages related to bitstring labels verbosesec - Print messages related to signature verification verbosecache - Print messages related to cache lookups Valued options: tsigfudge=n - Sets the default TSIG fudge value (in seconds) sig0validity=n - Sets the default SIG(0) validity period (in seconds)
OPTRecord	Options - describes Extended DNS (EDNS) properties of a Message.
PTRRecord	Pointer Record - maps a domain name representing an Internet Address to a hostname.
Rcode	Constants and functions relating to DNS rcodes (error values)
Record	A generic DNS resource record.
ReverseMap	A set functions designed to deal with DNS names used in reverse mappings.
RPRecord	Responsible Person Record - lists the mail address of a responsible person and a domain where TXT records are available.
RRset	A set of Records with the same name, type, and class.
Section	Constants and functions relating to DNS message sections
Serial	Helper functions for doing serial arithmetic.
SetResponse	The Response from a query to Cache.lookupRecords() or Zone.findRecords()
SIGRecord	Signature - A SIG provides the digital signature of an RRset, so that the data can be authenticated by a DNSSEC-capable resolver.
SimpleResolver	An implementation of Resolver that sends one query to one server.
SOARecord	Start of Authority - describes properties of a zone.
SRVRecord	Server Selection Record - finds hosts running services in a domain.
TKEYRecord	Transaction Key - used to compute and/or securely transport a shared secret to be used with TSIG.
Tokenizer	Tokenizer is used to parse DNS records and zones from text format,
Tokenizer.Token
TSIG	Transaction signature handling.
TSIG.StreamVerifier
TSIGRecord	Transaction Signature - this record is automatically generated by the resolver.
TTL	Routines for parsing BIND-style TTL values.
TXTRecord	Text - stores text strings
Type	Constants and functions relating to DNS Types
UNKRecord	A class implementing Records of unknown and/or unimplemented types.
Update	A helper class for constructing dynamic DNS (DDNS) update messages.
Zone	A DNS Zone.
ZoneTransferIn	An incoming DNS Zone Transfer.
ZoneTransferIn.Delta

Exception Summary

InvalidDClassException	An exception thrown when an invalid dclass code is specified.
InvalidTTLException	An exception thrown when an invalid TTL is specified.
InvalidTypeException	An exception thrown when an invalid type code is specified.
NameTooLongException	An exception thrown when a name is longer than the maximum length of a DNS name.
RelativeNameException	An exception thrown when a relative name is passed as an argument to a method requiring an absolute name.
TextParseException	An exception thrown when unable to parse text.
WireParseException	An exception thrown when a DNS message is invalid.
ZoneTransferException	An exception thrown when a zone transfer fails.