dns - Node.js v0.5.3 Manual & Documentation

## DNS

Use `require('dns')` to access this module.

Here is an example which resolves `'www.google.com'` then reverse resolves the IP addresses which are returned.

    var dns = require('dns');

    dns.resolve4('www.google.com', function (err, addresses) {
      if (err) throw err;

      console.log('addresses: ' + JSON.stringify(addresses));

      addresses.forEach(function (a) {
        dns.reverse(a, function (err, domains) {
          if (err) {
            console.log('reverse for ' + a + ' failed: ' +
              err.message);
          } else {
            console.log('reverse for ' + a + ': ' +
              JSON.stringify(domains));
          }
        });
      });
    });

### dns.lookup(domain, family=null, callback)

Resolves a domain (e.g. `'google.com'`) into the first found A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6) record.

The callback has arguments `(err, address, family)`. The `address` argument is a string representation of a IP v4 or v6 address. The `family` argument is either the integer 4 or 6 and denotes the family of `address` (not necessarily the value initially passed to `lookup`).

### dns.resolve(domain, rrtype='A', callback)

Resolves a domain (e.g. `'google.com'`) into an array of the record types specified by rrtype. Valid rrtypes are `A` (IPV4 addresses), `AAAA` (IPV6 addresses), `MX` (mail exchange records), `TXT` (text records), `SRV` (SRV records), `PTR` (used for reverse IP lookups), `NS` (name server records) and `CNAME` (canonical name records).

The callback has arguments `(err, addresses)`. The type of each item in `addresses` is determined by the record type, and described in the documentation for the corresponding lookup methods below.

On error, `err` would be an instanceof `Error` object, where `err.errno` is one of the error codes listed below and `err.message` is a string describing the error in English.

### dns.resolve4(domain, callback)

The same as `dns.resolve()`, but only for IPv4 queries (`A` records). `addresses` is an array of IPv4 addresses (e.g. `['74.125.79.104', '74.125.79.105', '74.125.79.106']`).

### dns.resolve6(domain, callback)

The same as `dns.resolve4()` except for IPv6 queries (an `AAAA` query).

### dns.resolveMx(domain, callback)

The same as `dns.resolve()`, but only for mail exchange queries (`MX` records).

`addresses` is an array of MX records, each with a priority and an exchange attribute (e.g. `[{'priority': 10, 'exchange': 'mx.example.com'},...]`).

### dns.resolveTxt(domain, callback)

The same as `dns.resolve()`, but only for text queries (`TXT` records). `addresses` is an array of the text records available for `domain` (e.g., `['v=spf1 ip4:0.0.0.0 ~all']`).

### dns.resolveSrv(domain, callback)

The same as `dns.resolve()`, but only for service records (`SRV` records). `addresses` is an array of the SRV records available for `domain`. Properties of SRV records are priority, weight, port, and name (e.g., `[{'priority': 10, {'weight': 5, 'port': 21223, 'name': 'service.example.com'}, ...]`).

### dns.reverse(ip, callback)

Reverse resolves an ip address to an array of domain names.

The callback has arguments `(err, domains)`.

### dns.resolveNs(domain, callback)

The same as `dns.resolve()`, but only for name server records (`NS` records). `addresses` is an array of the name server records available for `domain` (e.g., `['ns1.example.com', 'ns2.example.com']`).

### dns.resolveCname(domain, callback)

The same as `dns.resolve()`, but only for canonical name records (`CNAME` records). `addresses` is an array of the canonical name records available for `domain` (e.g., `['bar.example.com']`).

If there an an error, `err` will be non-null and an instanceof the Error object.

Each DNS query can return an error code.

- `dns.TEMPFAIL`: timeout, SERVFAIL or similar.
- `dns.PROTOCOL`: got garbled reply.
- `dns.NXDOMAIN`: domain does not exists.
- `dns.NODATA`: domain exists but no data of reqd type.
- `dns.NOMEM`: out of memory while processing.
- `dns.BADQUERY`: the query is malformed.