Hi,
whats wrong with using gethostbyaddr from the Socket package? A lot easier,
faster and slicker. Have you looked at this?
perldoc -f gethostbyaddr
use Socket;
sub dnsLookup {
my $ip = shift;
$iaddr = inet_aton($ip); # or whatever address
$name = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET);
return $name;
}
$ip = "172.20.2.68"
$hostname = dnsLookup($ip);
print "ip = $ip host = $hostname\";
may be you remeber the short discussion that we had on personal emails some
weeks ago. Zone xfers are ok, if you administrate the name server and if
you are allowed to initiate the zone transfer. But normally you are not
allowed to. And if you would be allowed to, then you can also just get a
copy of the zone file and grep through it. So you are stuck with nslookup
and things that behave like this. Get rid of dig, nslookup and so on. The
extra resources needed to start up the binaries and grepping through the
output, is a waste of power.
Best regards,
Oliver
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