NAME

VERSION

SYNOPSIS

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use POE qw(Component::IRC Component::IRC::Plugin::QueryDNS);

  my $nickname = 'qdns' . $$;
  my $ircname = 'QueryDNS Bot';
  my $ircserver = $ENV{IRCSERVER} || 'irc.bleh.net';
  my $port = 6667;
  my $channel = '#IRC.pm';

  my $irc = POE::Component::IRC->spawn(
        nick => $nickname,
        server => $ircserver,
        port => $port,
        ircname => $ircname,
        debug => 0,
        plugin_debug => 1,
        options => { trace => 0 },
  ) or die "Oh noooo! $!";

  POE::Session->create(
        package_states => [
                'main' => [ qw(_start irc_001) ],
        ],
  );

  $poe_kernel->run();
  exit 0;

  sub _start {
    # Create and load our QueryDNS plugin
    $irc->plugin_add( 'QueryDNS' =>
        POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::QueryDNS->new() );

    $irc->yield( register => 'all' );
    $irc->yield( connect => { } );
    undef;
  }

  sub irc_001 {
    $irc->yield( join => $channel );
    undef;
  }

DESCRIPTION

It uses POE::Component::Client::DNS to do non-blocking DNS queries. By default the plugin attempts to use POE::Component::IRC's internal PoCo-Client-DNS resolver object, but will spawn its own copy. You can supply your own resolver object via the constructor.

CONSTRUCTOR

"new"

Creates a new plugin object. Takes some optional parameter:

  'command', define the command that will trigger DNS queries, default is 'dns';
  'privmsg', set to a true value to specify that the bot should reply with PRIVMSG instead of
             NOTICE to privmsgs that it receives.
  'resolver', specify a POE::Component::Client::DNS object that the plugin should use,
              the default is to try and use POE::Component::IRC's resolver;
    

IRC USAGE

  dns <query> <optional_type>

Of course, if you changed the "command" in the constructor it will be something different to "dns".

"query" maybe a hostname, a zone, an IP address, anything that you want to query DNS for.

"type" can be "A", "PTR", "CNAME", "NS", "MX", "TXT", "AAAA", "SRV" or "SOA". If it isn't specified the default is "A" unless the "query" is an IP address in which case the default is "PTR".

Some examples:

   # No type, defaults to 'A'
   < you> bot: dns www.perl.org
   < bot> www.perl.org [ CNAME=x3.develooper.com. A=63.251.223.163 ]

   # No type, defaults to 'PTR' because the query is an IP address
   < you> bot: dns 63.251.223.163
   < bot> 63.251.223.163 [ PTR=x3.develooper.com. ]

   # Specify a type of 'MX'
   < you> bot: dns perl.org mx
   < bot> perl.org [ MX=5 mx.develooper.com. ]

   # Specify a type of 'TXT'
   < you> bot: dns perl.org txt
   < bot> No answers for perl.org

   # Specify a type of 'SOA'
   < you> bot: dns perl.org soa
   < bot> perl.org [ SOA=ns1.us.bitnames.com:dnsoper.bitnames.com:2008011304:5400:5400:604800:300 ]

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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