Basic Host Domains Example

This sample invokes and displays the results of a DomainTools "Host Domains" via DXL.

For more information see:

https://www.domaintools.com/resources/api-documentation/reverse-ip/

Prerequisites

• The samples configuration step has been completed (see Samples Configuration)
• The DomainTools API DXL service is running (see DomainTools API DXL Service)

Running

To run this sample execute the sample/basic/basic_host_domains_example.py script as follows:

python sample/basic/basic_host_domains_example.py

The output should appear similar to the following:

{
    "response": {
        "ip_addresses": {
            "domain_count": 1,
            "domain_names": [
                "DAILYCHANGES.COM"
            ],
            "ip_address": "64.246.165.240"
        }
    }
}

The received results are displayed.

Details

The majority of the sample code is shown below:

# Create the client
with DxlClient(config) as dxl_client:

    # Connect to the fabric
    dxl_client.connect()

    logger.info("Connected to DXL fabric.")

    # Create client wrapper
    client = DomainToolsApiClient(dxl_client)

    # Invoke 'host domains' method on service
    resp_dict = client.host_domains("64.246.165.240")

    # Print out the response (convert dictionary to JSON for pretty printing)
    print("Response:\n{}".format(
        MessageUtils.dict_to_json(resp_dict, pretty_print=True)))

Once a connection is established to the DXL fabric, a dxldomaintoolsclient.client.DomainToolsApiClient instance is created which will be used to invoke remote commands on the DomainTools API DXL service.

Next, the dxldomaintoolsclient.client.DomainToolsApiClient.host_domains() method is invoked with a domain name.

The final step is to display the contents of the returned dictionary (dict) which contains the results of the host domains query.

From the DomainTools Host Domains documentation:

"The Reverse IP API provides a list of domain names that share the same Internet host (i.e. the same IP address). You can request an IP address directly, or you can provide a domain name; if you provide a domain name, the API will respond with the list of other domains that share the same IP."