hickory-client

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A safe and secure DNS client library with DNSSEC support, based on Tokio and Futures.

# Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
hickory-client = "0.25.2"

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hickory-client

networkingrustv0.25.2

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AsyncClient

✓ use hickory_client::client::AsyncClient;

Creates an async DNS client and connects to a resolver.

use hickory_client::client::AsyncClient; use hickory_client::rr::DNSClass; use std::net::SocketAddr; use tokio::net::UdpSocket; #[tokio::main] async fn main() { let addr: SocketAddr = "8.8.8.8:53".parse().unwrap(); let socket = UdpSocket::bind("0.0.0.0:0").await.unwrap(); let (client, bg) = AsyncClient::new(socket, addr, None).await.unwrap(); tokio::spawn(bg); println!("DNS client created"); }

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Known issues

gotchaRequires Tokio runtime for async operations.

fix

Add tokio as a dependency and use #[tokio::main] or similar runtime.

affects: >=0.25.0

gotchaDNSSEC validation may require additional feature flags.

fix

Enable the 'dnssec' feature in Cargo.toml: hickory-client = { version = "0.25", features = ["dnssec"] }

affects: >=0.25.0

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0.25.2latest on crates.io

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Resources

githubhttps://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns ↗

homepagehttps://hickory-dns.org/ ↗

docshttps://docs.rs/hickory-client/ ↗