> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Paul Querna <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Okay, I think leveraging DNS makes a ton of sense. >> >> My question is then, how do we have a client from the libcloud side? >> >> Unless I'm being exceptionally thick headed, I don't see how you can >> make requests for txt record types in the standard python library? >> >> http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.gethostbyname >> >> (and the variants gethostbyname_ex and getaddrinfo) >> >> I am less than enthused if we would need another dependency to access >> txt records from dns. There are several possible libraries, PyDNS and >> dnspython are at the top of google results.
On Jun 2, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Ian Kallen wrote: > FWIW, I previously used dnspython for a homebrewed failover > application and elsewhere for dynamic DNS updating, worked great for > me in both those cases. IMHO I think it would be awesome to not have another dependency and make a really specialized DNS TXT lookup module. But I suppose I should back that up with a patch first! Jerry
