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Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable(3)

Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable - programmable DNS resolver class for offline emulation of DNS

    use Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable;
    use Net::DNS::RR;
    
    my $resolver = Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable->new(
        records         => {
            'example.com'     => [
                Net::DNS::RR->new('example.com.     NS  ns.example.org.'),
                Net::DNS::RR->new('example.com.     A   192.168.0.1')
            ],
            'ns.example.org'  => [
                Net::DNS::RR->new('ns.example.org.  A   192.168.1.1')
            ]
        },
        
        resolver_code   => sub {
            my ($domain, $rr_type, $class) = @_;
            ...
            return ($result, $aa, @rrs);
        }
    );

Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable is a Net::DNS::Resolver descendant class that allows a virtual DNS to be emulated instead of querying the real DNS. A set of static DNS records may be supplied, or arbitrary code may be specified as a means for retrieving DNS records, or even generating them on the fly.

The following constructor is provided:
new(%options): returns Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
Creates a new programmed DNS resolver object.

%options is a list of key/value pairs representing any of the following options:

records
A reference to a hash of arrays containing a static set of Net::DNS::RR objects. The hash entries must be indexed by fully qualified domain names (lower-case, without any trailing dots), and the entries themselves must be arrays of the RR objects pertaining to these domain names. For example:

    records => {
        'example.com'     => [
            Net::DNS::RR->new('example.com.     NS  ns.example.org.'),
            Net::DNS::RR->new('example.com.     A   192.168.0.1')
        ],
        'www.example.com' => [
            Net::DNS::RR->new('www.example.com. A   192.168.0.2')
        ],
        'ns.example.org'  => [
            Net::DNS::RR->new('ns.example.org.  A   192.168.1.1')
        ]
    }
    

If this option is specified, the resolver retrieves requested RRs from this data structure.

resolver_code
A code reference used as a call-back for dynamically retrieving requested RRs.

The code must take the following query parameters as arguments: the domain, RR type, and class.

It must return a list composed of: the response's RCODE (by name, as returned by Net::DNS::Header->rcode), the "aa" (authoritative answer) flag (boolean, use undef if you don't care), and the Net::DNS::RR answer objects. If an error string is returned instead of a valid RCODE, a Net::DNS::Packet object is not constructed but an error condition for the resolver is signaled instead.

For example:

    resolver_code => sub {
        my ($domain, $rr_type, $class) = @_;
        ...
        return ($result, $aa, @rrs);
    }
    

If both this and the "records" option are specified, then statically programmed records are used in addition to any that are returned by the configured resolver code.

defnames
dnsrch
domain
searchlist
debug
These Net::DNS::Resolver options are also meaningful with Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable. See Net::DNS::Resolver for their descriptions.

The following instance methods of Net::DNS::Resolver are also supported by Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable:
search: returns Net::DNS::Packet
query: returns Net::DNS::Packet
send: returns Net::DNS::Packet
Performs an offline DNS query, using the statically programmed DNS RRs and/or the configured dynamic resolver code. See the "new" constructor's "records" and "resolver_code" options. See the descriptions of search, query, and send for details about the calling syntax of these methods.
print
string: returns string
searchlist: returns list of string
defnames: returns boolean
dnsrch: returns boolean
debug: returns boolean
errorstring: returns string
answerfrom: returns string
answersize: returns integer
See "METHODS" in Net::DNS::Resolver.

Currently the following methods of Net::DNS::Resolver are not supported: axfr, axfr_start, axfr_next, nameservers, port, srcport, srcaddr, bgsend, bgread, bgisready, tsig, retrans, retry, recurse, usevc, tcp_timeout, udp_timeout, persistent_tcp, persistent_udp, igntc, dnssec, cdflag, udppacketsize. The effects of using these on Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable objects are undefined.

Net::DNS::Resolver

For availability, support, and license information, see the README file included with Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable.

David Precious (BIGPRESH) "<davidp@preshweb.co.uk>" took on maintainership in July 2017

Original author Julian Mehnle "<julian@mehnle.net>"

Dick Franks (rwfranks)

(This section was added by BIGPRESH in July 2017, so currently omits acknowledgements for those who contributed things in the past; I may retrospectively add them in future.)

2017-07-24 perl v5.32.1

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