On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am new to this list, but couldn't find something like this in the > archives. Here is a contribution of a perl function which is rather > clearly named. Firstly, I Am Not A Perl Hacker, and this was > painstakingly pieced together from tutorials and snippets and man pages. > So this may suck and there may be better ways of doing this. If so please > let me know.
I'm leery of anything that requires signal handling, especially SIGALRM. I believe the Perl module Net::DNS has functions for doing timed-out DNS lookups using select(), and I'd be happier with those. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

