Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cs.columbia.edu!dupuy From: dupuy@cs.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: DNS routines for perl Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 91 23:00:46 GMT Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Reply-To: dupuy@cs.columbia.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Columbia University Computer Science Department Lines: 12 Before I go and re-invent the wheel, has anyone written something which either implements DNS resolver functionality in perl, or provides access to low-level libresolv.a routines (not just gethostby*, etc.) using the usersub extension mechanism? I know about Marion Hakanson's DNS library, but it only reads zone files, and I want to generate queries to the network. @alex -- -- inet: dupuy@cs.columbia.edu uucp: ...!rutgers!cs.columbia.edu!dupuy