Basic Reverse Name Server Example

This sample invokes and displays the results of a DomainTools "Reverse Name Server" via DXL.

For more information see:
https://www.domaintools.com/resources/api-documentation/reverse-name-server/

Prerequisites

Running

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

python sample/basic/basic_reverse_name_server_example.py

The output should appear similar to the following:

{
    "response": {
        "name_server": {
            "hostname": "domaintools.net",
            "primary": 159,
            "secondary": 0,
            "total": 159
        },
        "primary_domains": [
            "aveneparis.com",
            "aveneskin.com",
            "aveneskinshop.com",
            "avenetherapy.com",
            "blank-nameserver.com",
            "bulk-check.com"
        ],
        "secondary_domains": []
    }
}

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 'reverse_name_server' method
    resp_dict = client.reverse_name_server("domaintools.net", 35)

    # 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.reverse_name_server() method is invoked with a domain name and a limit for the maximum size of the domain list to be returned. Note that the limit argument is optional.

The final step is to display the contents of the returned dictionary (dict) which contains the results of the reverse name server query.

From the DomainTools Reverse Name Server Documentation:

"The Reverse Name Server API provides a list of domain names that share the same primary or secondary name server."