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An Authority that loads BIND zone files.

Supports only $ORIGIN and $TTL directives.

Method addRecord Add a record to our authority. Expand domain with origin if necessary.
Method class_IN Simulate a class IN and recurse into the actual class.
Method collapseContinuations Transform multiline statements into single lines.
Method loadFile Load records from filename.
Method parseLines Parse lines.
Method parseRecordLine Parse a line from a zone file respecting origin and ttl.
Method stripComments Strip comments from lines.
Instance Variable origin Undocumented
Instance Variable records Undocumented
Instance Variable soa Undocumented

Inherited from FileAuthority:

Method __init__ Undocumented
Method __setstate__ Undocumented
Method lookupZone Perform an AXFR record lookup.
Instance Variable __dict__ Undocumented
Method _additionalRecords Find locally known information that could be useful to the consumer of the response and construct appropriate records to include in the additional section of that response.
Method _cbAllRecords Undocumented
Method _lookup Determine a response to a particular DNS query.
Constant _ADDITIONAL_PROCESSING_TYPES Record types for which additional processing will be done.
Constant _ADDRESS_TYPES Record types which are useful for inclusion in the additional section generated during additional processing.
Instance Variable _cache Undocumented

Inherited from ResolverBase (via FileAuthority):

Method exceptionForCode Convert a response code (one of the possible values of dns.Message.rCode to an exception instance representing it.
Method getHostByName Resolve the domain name name into an IP address.
Method lookupAddress Perform an A record lookup.
Method lookupAddress6 Perform an A6 record lookup.
Method lookupAFSDatabase Perform an AFSDB record lookup.
Method lookupAllRecords Perform an ALL_RECORD lookup.
Method lookupAuthority Perform an SOA record lookup.
Method lookupCanonicalName Perform a CNAME record lookup.
Method lookupHostInfo Perform a HINFO record lookup.
Method lookupIPV6Address Perform an AAAA record lookup.
Method lookupMailBox Perform an MB record lookup.
Method lookupMailboxInfo Perform an MINFO record lookup.
Method lookupMailExchange Perform an MX record lookup.
Method lookupMailGroup Perform an MG record lookup.
Method lookupMailRename Perform an MR record lookup.
Method lookupNameservers Perform an NS record lookup.
Method lookupNamingAuthorityPointer Perform a NAPTR record lookup.
Method lookupNull Perform a NULL record lookup.
Method lookupPointer Perform a PTR record lookup.
Method lookupResponsibility Perform an RP record lookup.
Method lookupSenderPolicy Perform a SPF record lookup.
Method lookupService Perform an SRV record lookup.
Method lookupText Perform a TXT record lookup.
Method lookupWellKnownServices Perform a WKS record lookup.
Method query Dispatch query to the method which can handle its type.
Instance Variable typeToMethod Undocumented
Method _cbRecords Undocumented
Class Variable _errormap A dict mapping DNS protocol failure response codes to exception classes which will be used to represent those failures.
Class Variable _log Undocumented
def addRecord(self, owner, ttl, type, domain, cls, rdata): (source)

Add a record to our authority. Expand domain with origin if necessary.

Parameters
owner:bytesorigin?
ttl:inttime to live for the record
type:strrecord type
domain:bytesthe domain for which the record is to be added
cls:strrecord class
rdata:list of bytesrecord data
def class_IN(self, ttl, type, domain, rdata): (source)

Simulate a class IN and recurse into the actual class.

Parameters
ttl:inttime to live for the record
type:strrecord type
domain:bytesthe domain
rdata:bytes
def collapseContinuations(self, lines): (source)

Transform multiline statements into single lines.

Parameters
lines:iterable of byteslines to work on
Returns
iterable of continuous lines
def loadFile(self, filename): (source)

Load records from filename.

Parameters
filename:bytesfile to read from
def parseLines(self, lines): (source)

Parse lines.

Parameters
lines:iterable of byteslines to work on
def parseRecordLine(self, origin, ttl, line): (source)

Parse a line from a zone file respecting origin and ttl.

Add resulting records to authority.

Parameters
origin:bytesstarting point for the zone
ttl:inttime to live for the record
line:list of byteszone file line to parse; split by word
def stripComments(self, lines): (source)

Strip comments from lines.

Parameters
lines:iterable of byteslines to work on
Returns
lines sans comments.

Undocumented