dns-rewrite-proxy

A DNS proxy server that conditionally rewrites and filters A record requests. Written in Python, all code is in a single module, and there is a single dependency, aiodnsresolver.

CNAMEs are followed and resolved by the proxy to IP addresses, and never returned to the client.

Installation

pip install dnsrewriteproxy

Usage

By default the proxy will listen on port 53, and proxy requests to the servers in /etc/resolv.conf. However, by default all requests are blocked without explicit rules, so to proxy requests you must configure at least one rewrite rule.

from dnsrewriteproxy import DnsProxy

# Proxy all incoming A record requests without any rewriting
start = DnsProxy(rules=((r'(^.*$)', r'\1'),))

# Run proxy, accepting UDP requests on port 53
await start()

The rules parameter must be an iterable [e.g. a list or a tuple] of tuples, where each tuple is regex pattern/replacement pair, passed to re.subn under the hood. On each incoming DNS request from downstream for a domain

• this list is iterated over;
• the first rule that matches the incoming domain name is used to rewrite the domain, the upstream DNS server is queried for A records, and these records, or error code, is returned downstream;
• and if no rule matches a REFUSED response is returned downstream.

The response of REFUSED is deliberate for clients to be able to help differentiate between a configuration issue on the proxy, the proxy not working or not being contactable, and a domain actually not existing.

So to rewrite all queries for www.source.com to www.target.com, and to refuse to proxy any others, you can use the following configuration.

start = DnsProxy(rules=(
    (r'^www\.source\.com$', r'www.target.com'),
))

Alternatively, do the same rewriting, but to allow all other requests, you can use the following.

start = DnsProxy(rules=(
    (r'^www\.source\.com$', r'www.target.com'),
    (r'(^.*$)', r'\1'),
))

To proxy to a server other than that specified in /etc/resolv.conf, you can pass a customised Resolver via get_resolver.

from aiodnsresolver import Resolver
from dnsrewriteproxy import DnsProxy

def get_resolver():
    async def get_nameservers(_, __):
        for _ in range(0, 5):
            yield (0.5, ('8.8.8.8', 53))
    return Resolver(get_nameserver=get_nameservers)

start = DnsProxy(
    rules=((r'(^.*$)', r'\1'),),
    get_resolver=get_resolver,
)

Server lifecycle

In the above example await start() completes just after the server has started listening. The coroutine start returns the underlying task to give control over the server lifecycle. A task can be seen as an “asyncio thread”; this is exposed to allow the server to sit in a larger asyncio Python program that may have a specific startup/shutdown procedure.

Run forever

You can run the server forever [or until it hits some non-recoverable error] by awaiting this task.

from dnsrewriteproxy import DnsProxy

start = DnsProxy(rules=((r'(^.*$)', r'\1'),))
server_task = await start()

# Waiting here until the server is stopped
await server_task

Stopping the server

To stop the server, you can cancel the returned task.

from dnsrewriteproxy import DnsProxy

start = DnsProxy(rules=((r'(^.*$)', r'\1'),))
proxy_task = await start()

# ... Receive requests

# Initiate stopping: new requests will not be processed...
proxy_task.cancel()

try:
    # ... and we wait until previously received requests have been processed
    await proxy_task
except asyncio.CancelledError:
    pass

Graceful shutdown example

A full example of a server that would do a graceful shutdown on SIGINT or SIGTERM is below.

import asyncio
import signal

from dnsrewriteproxy import (
    DnsProxy,
)

async def async_main():
    start = DnsProxy(rules=((r'(^.*$)', r'\1'),))
    proxy_task = await start()

    loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
    loop.add_signal_handler(signal.SIGINT, proxy_task.cancel)
    loop.add_signal_handler(signal.SIGTERM, proxy_task.cancel)

    try:
        await proxy_task
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        pass

asyncio.run(async_main())
print('End of program')