Net::DNSServer - Perl Name Server

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Description
2. Files
3. Availability
4. Bugs
5. Copyright
6. Credits

1. DESCRIPTION

Net::DNSServer is a secure and extensible name server. To read about the latest features, see the Changes file. To find out about known bugs and to see what's planned for future versions, see the BUGS and TODO files.

Any suggestions, ideas, patches, etc are welcome. Let me know if you have questions or if you've found some bugs. I'll implement what I feel is best, and I'll be sure to give you credit.

WARNING

Net::DNSServer is still in PreAlpha phase. This module is still highly experimental. It is not meant for production use yet.

2. FILES

demo

• Demonstration scripts directory
• See demo/README conf/named.conf
• Copied from default caching-nameserver-7.0-6
• (May be removed in future versions.) conf/named.root
• ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.root lib/Net/DNSServer.pm
• Main name server engine lib/Net/DNSServer/ConfParser.pm
• Only subroutines for reading conf files.
• (May be removed in future versions.) lib/Net/DNSServer/*
• Various resolver modules

3. AVAILABILITY

You can get the latest version of Net::DNSServer from CPAN or from the dnsserver homepage:

http://www.cpan.org./modules/by-module/Net/ http://freeware.roobik.com/dnsserver/

See the INSTALL document for installation instructions.

4. BUGS

Net::DNSServer is still in PreAlpha phase. See the BUGS file for more information.

5. COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002 Rob Brown. All rights reserved. Net::DNSServer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

6. CREDITS

Rob Brown <bbb@cpan.org>

• http://freeware.roobik.com/dnsserver/
• Wrote the majority of code.

Paul Seamons <paul@seamons.com>

• http://seamons.com/
• Net::Server made this project much easier.

Michael Fuhr <mfuhr@dimensional.com>
Chris Reinhardt <ctriv@dyndns.org>

• http://www.net-dns.org/
• Very large contributor (Net::DNS)

Sam Tregar <sam@tregar.com>

• http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SAMTREGAR/
• IPC::SharedCache is perfect for holding the DNS information with a TTL validate_hook for Net::Server::PreFork servers.
• It is the guts of my SharedCache resolver.