Python: get DNS query from a specific, hardcoded server

Question

How do I do dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @8.8.4.4 in Python?

(That line resolves the hostname o-o.myaddr.l.google.com through the DNS server 8.8.4.4.)

Answer 1

You can use dnspython, which is a DNS toolkit for Python. This can be installed via pip.

pip install dnspython

You can then use dns.resolver.Resolver class from this module to query the DNS records.

>>> import dns.resolver
>>> resolver = dns.resolver.Resolver()
>>> resolver.nameservers = ["8.8.4.4"]
>>> answer = resolver.resolve("<Your Domain>", 'TXT') # Query TXT record.