RFC: DNS resolver module - comp.lang.perl.modules

Message from discussion RFC: DNS resolver module
From: mf...@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr)
Subject: RFC: DNS resolver module
Date: 1997/01/20
Message-ID: <5c1jej$jbc@nova.dimensional.com>#1/1
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organization: Dimensional Communications
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I've been working on a general interface to the DNS resolver,
allowing the programmer to look up any record type instead of
just A (gethostbyname) and PTR (gethostbyaddr).  I hope to have
it finished by the end of Jan 1997; in the meantime, there's
some info about it at:

    http://www.dimensional.com/~mfuhr/perldns/

Although the module isn't available yet, there are a few manpages that
show what you'll be able to do.  The Net::DNS and Net::DNS::Resolver
manpages have some code fragments as examples.

I originally called the module DNS but my current choice is Net::DNS,
which seems more consistent with the modules for other protocols such
as Net::FTP, Net::SMTP, etc.  I'm open to other suggestions.

I'd appreciate any feedback on the info I've provided so far.  Thanks.
-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.dimensional.com/~mfuhr/