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rfc6844-conform CAA record lookup and validation
import {caa, caaMatches} from "caa";
await caa("example.com");
// => [{flags: 0, tag: 'issue', value: 'letsencrypt.org', issuerCritical: false}]
await caa.matches("example.com", "letsencrypt.org");
// => true
caa(name, [options])
Retrieve the CAA records which apply to name
. Returns a CAA
object.
caaMatches(name, ca, [options])
Test if the CAA record for name
matches for certificate authority ca
.
options
servers
: The DNS servers to use. Defaults to the system resolvers or ['8.8.8.8', '8.8.4.4']
if none are configured.port
: The port on the DNS server to use. Default 53
.recursions
: How many recursions to follow. Default 50
.retries
: How many retries to attempt. Default 12
.ignoreTLDs
: Don't query top level domains like com
in example.com
. Default: false
.dnsSocket
: A dns-socket instance, useful when doing a large amount of queries to re-use a single socket. Default: undefined
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rfc6844-conform CAA record lookup and validation
The npm package caa receives a total of 6,159 weekly downloads. As such, caa popularity was classified as popular.
We found that caa demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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