A DNS lookup plugin for Sopel IRC bots
Releases are hosted on PyPI, so after installing Sopel, all you need is pip
:
$ pip install sopel-dns
- Python 3.8+
- Sopel 8.0+
dnspython
2.x
Basic usage performs an 'A' record lookup:
<user> .dns domain.tld
<bot> user: 10.10.0.1
To look up IPv6 addresses instead, specify the 'AAAA' record type:
<user> .dns domain.tld AAAA
<bot> user: fd12:3456:789a:1::1
Other supported record types output their
results in a similar fashion. Some types, such as MX
and TXT
, split the
output across multiple lines to make it easier to read, at the cost of
possible "spam" if there are many records attached to the queried domain.
Normal users are rate-limited to one .dns
command every 2 minutes, both to
control channel flood and to prevent hammering whatever DNS server Sopel's
host system uses to resolve the submitted queries.
A
AAAA
CNAME
MX
NS
PTR
TXT
If a record type you want isn't listed here, feel free to request it in an issue. Even better: a pull request enabling that record type, including a demo of the resulting output.