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.. _example_resolve_name:

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Resolve a name
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This basic example shows how to create a context and resolve a host address (DNS record of A type).

::

	#!/usr/bin/python
	import unbound
	
	ctx = unbound.ub_ctx()
	ctx.resolvconf("/etc/resolv.conf")
	
	status, result = ctx.resolve("www.google.com")
	if status == 0 and result.havedata:
		print "Result.data:", result.data.address_list
	elif status != 0:
		print "Resolve error:", unbound.ub_strerror(status)

In contrast with C API, the source code is more compact while the performance of C implementation is preserved. 
The main advantage is that you need not take care about the deallocation and allocation of context and result structures; pyUnbound module do it automatically for you. 

If only domain name is given, the :meth:`unbound.ub_ctx.resolve` looks for A records in IN class.