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Support resolving plain DNS PTR records #4921

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@dturing dturing commented Jan 27, 2016

Node's DNS module currently supports reverse IP lookup with dns.reverse(), which internally uses c-ares' gethostbyaddr(). It works great to look up the registered hostname for IP addresses ("Reverse DNS").

In DNS-SD (RFC6763), PTR records are used for listing service instance names for a domain (see Section 4.1), and there might be other uses of PTR records outside of Reverse DNS or DNS-SD.

c-ares supports querying and parsing PTR records, and ares_gethostbyaddr() uses ares_parse_ptr_reply internally. It's just not wrapped in the current version of node.

I took on the straightforward work of copying the glue code that wraps ares_query/ares_parse_srv_reply into dns.resolveSrv (SRV record lookup), and use ares_parse_ptr_reply to implement dns.resolvePtr, as seen in this pull request. It returns a simple array of strings containing the returned PTR records.

for example,

> dns.resolvePtr("8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa",console.log);
null [ 'google-public-dns-a.google.com' ]

if i have registered a number of DNS-SD service instances, it can look like:

> dns.resolvePtr("_http._tcp.lan",console.log);
null [ 'Public_Message_Board._http._tcp.lan',
  'New_Employee_Information_Page._http._tcp.lan',
  'Company_Website._http._tcp.lan' ]

One caveat: this clears up the use of rrtype in dns.resolve() with rrtype="PTR", but changes the behaviour of resolve(hostname,"PTR",cb). Before, this was using dns.reverse(), so to lookup the hostname for 8.8.4.4, you would do:
dns.resolve("8.8.4.4","PTR",console.log);
Now, you would have to:
dns.resolve("4.4.8.8.in-addr.arpa","PTR",console.log);
Or, better, you can still do:
dns.reverse("8.8.4.4",console.log)

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Thanks! I'm in support of breaking dns.resolve("8.8.4.4","PTR",console.log), it's nonsense to have magic query transformations like this.


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Can you add a IPv6 resolvePtr test too?

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Oh, and possibly also one for dns.resolvePtr('8.8.8.8') which should result in an error.

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Thanks for your comments. I will add the requested tests next week.

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@silverwind - i dont think a IPv6 resolvePtr test makes sense, PTRs actually don't deal with addresses.

I could resolve PTR for "8.8.8.8.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.6.8.4.0.6.8.4.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa", Google's v6 reverse, but really the test_relovePtr uses "8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa" only because it's a readily available PTR record - that it's a in-addr.arpa entry is just a coincidence.

dns.reverse(), which deals with addresses, is tested in test-dns-ipv6.js already.

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Changes are LGTM so far, waiting on the tests.

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jasnell commented Feb 1, 2016

/cc @mscdex

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CI is green, LGTM

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mscdex commented Feb 1, 2016

LGTM as long as the unrelated DNS test additions remain in a separate commit when this PR is landed. The others can be squashed together.

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dturing commented Feb 2, 2016

cool, thanks. Is there anything i can or should do about keeping those commits separate?

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jasnell commented Feb 2, 2016

@dturing ... yes, the easiest thing would be to rebase and squash just those commits together. If things are out of order, one easy thing to do would be a git reset --soft HEAD~4 on the branch and simply redo the commits so that they are in the right order, then force push back to your dev branch. That would make the commit history a bit cleaner. Then, when that's done, drop a comment here and make sure to mention that the commits should not be squashed when landed :-)

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@dturing would be great if you can combine commits 1 and 4, and 2 and 3. One more CI run after that and it should be good to land.

test wether the various resolve functions cause ENOTFOUND when trying to resolve
a known invalid domain/hostname.
Resolving plain PTR records is used beyond reverse DNS, most
prominently with DNS-SD (RFC6763). This adds dns.resolvePtr(),
and uses it (instead of dns.reverse()) in dns.resolve().
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dturing commented Feb 8, 2016

i've put the DNS test additions and the actual resolvePtr work in separate commits, which should stay separate as pointed out by @jasnell

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mscdex commented Feb 8, 2016

LGTM

silverwind pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 8, 2016
test whether the various resolve functions cause ENOTFOUND when trying
to resolve a known invalid domain/hostname.

PR-URL: #4921
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
silverwind pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 8, 2016
Resolving plain PTR records is used beyond reverse DNS, most
prominently with DNS-SD (RFC6763). This adds dns.resolvePtr(),
and uses it (instead of dns.reverse()) in dns.resolve().

PR-URL: #4921
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
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Thanks! Landed in c4ab861 and dbdbdd4.

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dturing commented Feb 8, 2016

Great, thank yous!

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scovetta pushed a commit to scovetta/node that referenced this pull request Apr 2, 2016
test whether the various resolve functions cause ENOTFOUND when trying
to resolve a known invalid domain/hostname.

PR-URL: nodejs#4921
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
scovetta pushed a commit to scovetta/node that referenced this pull request Apr 2, 2016
Resolving plain PTR records is used beyond reverse DNS, most
prominently with DNS-SD (RFC6763). This adds dns.resolvePtr(),
and uses it (instead of dns.reverse()) in dns.resolve().

PR-URL: nodejs#4921
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
@jasnell jasnell mentioned this pull request Apr 19, 2016
jasnell added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 26, 2016
The following significant (semver-major) changes have been made since the
previous Node v5.0.0 release.

* Buffer
  * New Buffer constructors have been added
    [#4682](#4682)
  * Previously deprecated Buffer APIs are removed
    [#5048](#5048),
    [#4594](#4594)
  * Improved error handling [#4514](#4514)
* Cluster
  * Worker emitted as first argument in 'message' event
    [#5361](#5361).
* Crypto
  * Improved error handling [#3100](#3100),
    [#5611](#5611)
  * Simplified Certificate class bindings
    [#5382](#5382)
  * Improved control over FIPS mode
    [#5181](#5181)
  * pbkdf2 digest overloading is deprecated
    [#4047](#4047)
* Dependencies
  * Reintroduce shared c-ares build support
    [#5775](#5775).
  * V8 updated to 5.0.71.31 [#6111](#6111).
* DNS
  * Add resolvePtr API to query plain DNS PTR records
    [#4921](#4921).
* Domains
  * Clear stack when no error handler
  [#4659](#4659).
* File System
  * The `fs.realpath()` and `fs.realpathSync()` methods have been updated
    to use a more efficient libuv implementation. This change includes the
    removal of the `cache` argument and the method can throw new errors
    [#3594](#3594)
  * FS apis can now accept and return paths as Buffers
    [#5616](#5616).
  * Error handling and type checking improvements
    [#5616](#5616),
    [#5590](#5590),
    [#4518](#4518),
    [#3917](#3917).
  * fs.read's string interface is deprecated
    [#4525](#4525)
* HTTP
  * 'clientError' can now be used to return custom errors from an
    HTTP server [#4557](#4557).
* Modules
  * Current directory is now prioritized for local lookups
    [#5689](#5689)
  * Symbolic links are preserved when requiring modules
    [#5950](#5950)
* Net
  * DNS hints no longer implicitly set
    [#6021](#6021).
  * Improved error handling and type checking
    [#5981](#5981),
    [#5733](#5733),
    [#2904](#2904)
* Path
  * Improved type checking [#5348](#5348).
* Process
  * Introduce process warnings API
    [#4782](#4782).
  * Throw exception when non-function passed to nextTick
    [#3860](#3860).
* Readline
  * Emit key info unconditionally
    [#6024](#6024)
* REPL
  * Assignment to `_` will emit a warning.
    [#5535](#5535)
* Timers
  * Fail early when callback is not a function
    [#4362](#4362)
* TLS
  * Rename 'clientError' to 'tlsClientError'
    [#4557](#4557)
  * SHA1 used for sessionIdContext
    [#3866](#3866)
* TTY
  * Previously deprecated setRawMode wrapper is removed
    [#2528](#2528).
* Util
  * Changes to Error object formatting
    [#4582](#4582).
* Windows
  * Windows XP and Vista are no longer supported
    [#5167](#5167),
    [#5167](#5167).
jasnell added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 26, 2016
The following significant (semver-major) changes have been made since the
previous Node v5.0.0 release.

* Buffer
  * New Buffer constructors have been added
    [#4682](#4682)
  * Previously deprecated Buffer APIs are removed
    [#5048](#5048),
    [#4594](#4594)
  * Improved error handling [#4514](#4514)
* Cluster
  * Worker emitted as first argument in 'message' event
    [#5361](#5361).
* Crypto
  * Improved error handling [#3100](#3100),
    [#5611](#5611)
  * Simplified Certificate class bindings
    [#5382](#5382)
  * Improved control over FIPS mode
    [#5181](#5181)
  * pbkdf2 digest overloading is deprecated
    [#4047](#4047)
* Dependencies
  * Reintroduce shared c-ares build support
    [#5775](#5775).
  * V8 updated to 5.0.71.31 [#6111](#6111).
* DNS
  * Add resolvePtr API to query plain DNS PTR records
    [#4921](#4921).
* Domains
  * Clear stack when no error handler
  [#4659](#4659).
* File System
  * The `fs.realpath()` and `fs.realpathSync()` methods have been updated
    to use a more efficient libuv implementation. This change includes the
    removal of the `cache` argument and the method can throw new errors
    [#3594](#3594)
  * FS apis can now accept and return paths as Buffers
    [#5616](#5616).
  * Error handling and type checking improvements
    [#5616](#5616),
    [#5590](#5590),
    [#4518](#4518),
    [#3917](#3917).
  * fs.read's string interface is deprecated
    [#4525](#4525)
* HTTP
  * 'clientError' can now be used to return custom errors from an
    HTTP server [#4557](#4557).
* Modules
  * Current directory is now prioritized for local lookups
    [#5689](#5689)
  * Symbolic links are preserved when requiring modules
    [#5950](#5950)
* Net
  * DNS hints no longer implicitly set
    [#6021](#6021).
  * Improved error handling and type checking
    [#5981](#5981),
    [#5733](#5733),
    [#2904](#2904)
* Path
  * Improved type checking [#5348](#5348).
* Process
  * Introduce process warnings API
    [#4782](#4782).
  * Throw exception when non-function passed to nextTick
    [#3860](#3860).
* Readline
  * Emit key info unconditionally
    [#6024](#6024)
* REPL
  * Assignment to `_` will emit a warning.
    [#5535](#5535)
* Timers
  * Fail early when callback is not a function
    [#4362](#4362)
* TLS
  * Rename 'clientError' to 'tlsClientError'
    [#4557](#4557)
  * SHA1 used for sessionIdContext
    [#3866](#3866)
* TTY
  * Previously deprecated setRawMode wrapper is removed
    [#2528](#2528).
* Util
  * Changes to Error object formatting
    [#4582](#4582).
* Windows
  * Windows XP and Vista are no longer supported
    [#5167](#5167),
    [#5167](#5167).
jasnell added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 26, 2016
The following significant (semver-major) changes have been made since the
previous Node v5.0.0 release.

* Buffer
  * New Buffer constructors have been added
    [#4682](#4682)
  * Previously deprecated Buffer APIs are removed
    [#5048](#5048),
    [#4594](#4594)
  * Improved error handling [#4514](#4514)
* Cluster
  * Worker emitted as first argument in 'message' event
    [#5361](#5361).
* Crypto
  * Improved error handling [#3100](#3100),
    [#5611](#5611)
  * Simplified Certificate class bindings
    [#5382](#5382)
  * Improved control over FIPS mode
    [#5181](#5181)
  * pbkdf2 digest overloading is deprecated
    [#4047](#4047)
* Dependencies
  * Reintroduce shared c-ares build support
    [#5775](#5775).
  * V8 updated to 5.0.71.31 [#6111](#6111).
* DNS
  * Add resolvePtr API to query plain DNS PTR records
    [#4921](#4921).
* Domains
  * Clear stack when no error handler
  [#4659](#4659).
* File System
  * The `fs.realpath()` and `fs.realpathSync()` methods have been updated
    to use a more efficient libuv implementation. This change includes the
    removal of the `cache` argument and the method can throw new errors
    [#3594](#3594)
  * FS apis can now accept and return paths as Buffers
    [#5616](#5616).
  * Error handling and type checking improvements
    [#5616](#5616),
    [#5590](#5590),
    [#4518](#4518),
    [#3917](#3917).
  * fs.read's string interface is deprecated
    [#4525](#4525)
* HTTP
  * 'clientError' can now be used to return custom errors from an
    HTTP server [#4557](#4557).
* Modules
  * Current directory is now prioritized for local lookups
    [#5689](#5689)
  * Symbolic links are preserved when requiring modules
    [#5950](#5950)
* Net
  * DNS hints no longer implicitly set
    [#6021](#6021).
  * Improved error handling and type checking
    [#5981](#5981),
    [#5733](#5733),
    [#2904](#2904)
* OS X
  * MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET has been bumped up to 10.7
    [#6402](#6402).
* Path
  * Improved type checking [#5348](#5348).
* Process
  * Introduce process warnings API
    [#4782](#4782).
  * Throw exception when non-function passed to nextTick
    [#3860](#3860).
* Readline
  * Emit key info unconditionally
    [#6024](#6024)
* REPL
  * Assignment to `_` will emit a warning.
    [#5535](#5535)
* Timers
  * Fail early when callback is not a function
    [#4362](#4362)
* TLS
  * Rename 'clientError' to 'tlsClientError'
    [#4557](#4557)
  * SHA1 used for sessionIdContext
    [#3866](#3866)
* TTY
  * Previously deprecated setRawMode wrapper is removed
    [#2528](#2528).
* Util
  * Changes to Error object formatting
    [#4582](#4582).
* Windows
  * Windows XP and Vista are no longer supported
    [#5167](#5167),
    [#5167](#5167).
jasnell added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 26, 2016
The following significant (semver-major) changes have been made since the
previous Node v5.0.0 release.

* Buffer
  * New Buffer constructors have been added
    [#4682](#4682)
  * Previously deprecated Buffer APIs are removed
    [#5048](#5048),
    [#4594](#4594)
  * Improved error handling [#4514](#4514)
* Cluster
  * Worker emitted as first argument in 'message' event
    [#5361](#5361).
* Crypto
  * Improved error handling [#3100](#3100),
    [#5611](#5611)
  * Simplified Certificate class bindings
    [#5382](#5382)
  * Improved control over FIPS mode
    [#5181](#5181)
  * pbkdf2 digest overloading is deprecated
    [#4047](#4047)
* Dependencies
  * Reintroduce shared c-ares build support
    [#5775](#5775).
  * V8 updated to 5.0.71.31 [#6111](#6111).
* DNS
  * Add resolvePtr API to query plain DNS PTR records
    [#4921](#4921).
* Domains
  * Clear stack when no error handler
  [#4659](#4659).
* File System
  * The `fs.realpath()` and `fs.realpathSync()` methods have been updated
    to use a more efficient libuv implementation. This change includes the
    removal of the `cache` argument and the method can throw new errors
    [#3594](#3594)
  * FS apis can now accept and return paths as Buffers
    [#5616](#5616).
  * Error handling and type checking improvements
    [#5616](#5616),
    [#5590](#5590),
    [#4518](#4518),
    [#3917](#3917).
  * fs.read's string interface is deprecated
    [#4525](#4525)
* HTTP
  * 'clientError' can now be used to return custom errors from an
    HTTP server [#4557](#4557).
* Modules
  * Current directory is now prioritized for local lookups
    [#5689](#5689)
  * Symbolic links are preserved when requiring modules
    [#5950](#5950)
* Net
  * DNS hints no longer implicitly set
    [#6021](#6021).
  * Improved error handling and type checking
    [#5981](#5981),
    [#5733](#5733),
    [#2904](#2904)
* OS X
  * MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET has been bumped up to 10.7
    [#6402](#6402).
* Path
  * Improved type checking [#5348](#5348).
* Process
  * Introduce process warnings API
    [#4782](#4782).
  * Throw exception when non-function passed to nextTick
    [#3860](#3860).
* Readline
  * Emit key info unconditionally
    [#6024](#6024)
* REPL
  * Assignment to `_` will emit a warning.
    [#5535](#5535)
* Timers
  * Fail early when callback is not a function
    [#4362](#4362)
* TLS
  * Rename 'clientError' to 'tlsClientError'
    [#4557](#4557)
  * SHA1 used for sessionIdContext
    [#3866](#3866)
* TTY
  * Previously deprecated setRawMode wrapper is removed
    [#2528](#2528).
* Util
  * Changes to Error object formatting
    [#4582](#4582).
* Windows
  * Windows XP and Vista are no longer supported
    [#5167](#5167),
    [#5167](#5167).
jasnell added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 26, 2016
The following significant (semver-major) changes have been made since the
previous Node v5.0.0 release.

* Buffer
  * New Buffer constructors have been added
    [#4682](#4682)
  * Previously deprecated Buffer APIs are removed
    [#5048](#5048),
    [#4594](#4594)
  * Improved error handling [#4514](#4514)
* Cluster
  * Worker emitted as first argument in 'message' event
    [#5361](#5361).
* Crypto
  * Improved error handling [#3100](#3100),
    [#5611](#5611)
  * Simplified Certificate class bindings
    [#5382](#5382)
  * Improved control over FIPS mode
    [#5181](#5181)
  * pbkdf2 digest overloading is deprecated
    [#4047](#4047)
* Dependencies
  * Reintroduce shared c-ares build support
    [#5775](#5775).
  * V8 updated to 5.0.71.31 [#6111](#6111).
* DNS
  * Add resolvePtr API to query plain DNS PTR records
    [#4921](#4921).
* Domains
  * Clear stack when no error handler
  [#4659](#4659).
* File System
  * The `fs.realpath()` and `fs.realpathSync()` methods have been updated
    to use a more efficient libuv implementation. This change includes the
    removal of the `cache` argument and the method can throw new errors
    [#3594](#3594)
  * FS apis can now accept and return paths as Buffers
    [#5616](#5616).
  * Error handling and type checking improvements
    [#5616](#5616),
    [#5590](#5590),
    [#4518](#4518),
    [#3917](#3917).
  * fs.read's string interface is deprecated
    [#4525](#4525)
* HTTP
  * 'clientError' can now be used to return custom errors from an
    HTTP server [#4557](#4557).
* Modules
  * Current directory is now prioritized for local lookups
    [#5689](#5689)
  * Symbolic links are preserved when requiring modules
    [#5950](#5950)
* Net
  * DNS hints no longer implicitly set
    [#6021](#6021).
  * Improved error handling and type checking
    [#5981](#5981),
    [#5733](#5733),
    [#2904](#2904)
* OS X
  * MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET has been bumped up to 10.7
    [#6402](#6402).
* Path
  * Improved type checking [#5348](#5348).
* Process
  * Introduce process warnings API
    [#4782](#4782).
  * Throw exception when non-function passed to nextTick
    [#3860](#3860).
* Readline
  * Emit key info unconditionally
    [#6024](#6024)
* REPL
  * Assignment to `_` will emit a warning.
    [#5535](#5535)
* Timers
  * Fail early when callback is not a function
    [#4362](#4362)
* TLS
  * Rename 'clientError' to 'tlsClientError'
    [#4557](#4557)
  * SHA1 used for sessionIdContext
    [#3866](#3866)
* TTY
  * Previously deprecated setRawMode wrapper is removed
    [#2528](#2528).
* Util
  * Changes to Error object formatting
    [#4582](#4582).
* Windows
  * Windows XP and Vista are no longer supported
    [#5167](#5167),
    [#5167](#5167).
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