Re: [MacPerl] DNS resolver

[Peter Van Avermaet <PVanAver@inetgate.capvolmac.nl>]

A reply after 35 days !

I happened to stumble across a script called bind.pl on URL
http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/perl/bind.pl

The author is Marc Horowitz, marc@athena.mit.edu or marc@mit.edu .

>>> John Whelan <johnw@imagelinc.com> 10/18/96 03:24am >>>
Has anyone done any work on a Perl DNS resolver or
MX algorithm that 'could' work on a Macintosh.  After
reading some of the relevant RFC's, it looks like
it would be possible with a TCP or UDP socket to
the nameserver(s) specified in the TCP/IP control
panel.

I'm not sure how one would get the nameserver
address from the OS, and an MX algorithm, as specified
in RFC 1035,  would probably require signifigant
effort (at least if I tried to do it myself:-).

Any comments are greatly appreciated.

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