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Query functions for DNS

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released Mar 24th 2017
This module has been deprecated by its author since Jun 26th 2023.

The author has suggested puppet-dnsquery as its replacement.

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Documentation

dalen/dnsquery — version 3.0.0 Mar 24th 2017

DNS query functions

This module contains query functions for DNS for use from Puppet.

Usage

All functions can take a optional second lambda argument that is called if the lookup returned no values. Then the result of the lambda will be used instead.

dns_lookup

Does a DNS lookup and returns an array of addresses.

dns_a

Retrieves DNS A records and returns it as an array. Each record in the array will be a IPv4 address.

dns_aaaa

Retrieves DNS AAAA records and returns it as an array. Each record in the array will be a IPv6 address.

dns_cname

Retrieves a DNS CNAME record and returns it as a string.

dns_mx

Retrieves DNS MX records and returns it as an array. Each record in the array will be an array of hashes containing a preference & exchange key.

dns_ptr

Retrieves DNS PTR records and returns it as an array of strings.

dns_srv

Retrieves DNS SRV records and returns it as an array. Each record in the array will be an array of hashes containing a priority, weight, port and target key.

dns_txt

Retrieves DNS TXT records and returns it as an array. Each record in the array will be a array containing the strings of the TXT record.