NAME

VERSION

SYNOPSIS

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use Getopt::Long;

  use POE qw(Component::Client::DNS::Recursive);

  my $trace;
  GetOptions ('trace' => \$trace);

  my $host = shift || die "Nothing to query\n";
  my $type = shift;

  POE::Session->create(
    package_states => [
          'main', [qw(_start _response _trace)],
    ],
  );

  $poe_kernel->run();
  exit 0;

  sub _start {
    POE::Component::Client::DNS::Recursive->resolve(
          event => '_response',
          host => $host,
        ( $type ? ( type => $type ) : () ),
        ( $trace ? ( trace => $_[SESSION]->postback( '_trace' ) ) : () ),
    );
    return;
  }

  sub _trace {
    my $packet = $_[ARG1]->[0];
    return unless $packet;
    print $packet->string;
    return;
  }

  sub _response {
    my $packet = $_[ARG0]->{response};
    return unless $packet;
    print $packet->string;
    return;
  }

DESCRIPTION

POE sessions and components can spawn a POE::Component::Client::DNS::Recursive instance to perform a DNS query. The component will perform its task and return the results to the requesting session.

One may also enable tracing of the delegation path from the root name servers for the name being looked up.

CONSTRUCTOR

"resolve"

Takes a number of options, only those marked as "mandatory" are required:

  'event', the event to emit when completed, mandatory;
  'host', what to look up, mandatory;
  'type', defaults to 'A' or 'PTR' if 'host' appears to be an IP address;
  'class', defaults to 'IN';
  'port', the port to use for DNS requests. Default is 53;
  'session', provide an alternative session to send the resultant event to;
  'trace', the event to send trace information to;
  'nameservers', an arrayref of IP addresses that the poco will use instead of built-in 'hints';
  'context', user defined data. Can be anything that can be stored in a scalar;
    

"event" and "trace" are discussed in the "OUTPUT EVENTS" section below.

"event" and "trace" may also be POE::Session postbacks.

"session" is only required if one wishes to send the resultant events to a different session than the calling one, or if the component is spawned with the POE::Kernel as its parent.

OUTPUT EVENTS

If you have opted to use postbacks, then these parameters will be passed in the arrayref in "ARG1".

"event"

Emitted when the query has finished.

"ARG0" will contain a hashref with the following fields:

  host     => the host requested,
  type     => the type requested,
  class    => the class requested,
  context  => the context that was passed to us,
  response => a Net::DNS::Packet object,
  error    => an error message ( if applicable )
    

"response" contains a Net::DNS::Packet object on success or undef if the lookup failed. The Net::DNS::Packet object describes the response to the program's request. It may contain several DNS records. Please consult Net::DNS and Net::DNS::Packet for more information.

"error" contains a description of any error that has occurred. It is only valid if "response" is undefined.

"trace"

Emitted whenever an element of the delegation path from the root servers is found.

"ARG0" will be a Net::DNS::Packet object.

SEE ALSO

Perl Programming

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.