The Perl Net::addrinfo Extension Module

Introduction

This Perl module is designed to implement and export functionality related to the POSIX getaddrinfo(3) system call. The Net::addrinfo data object is provided with field name accsessor functions, similarly named to the the C data structure definition in netdb.h.

Availability

The most recent release of this module can be found bundled with the latest DNSSEC-Tools distribution available from:

http://www.dnssec-tools.org/resources/download.html

This module should also be available through CPAN

http://www.cpan.org

(NOTE: it is proposed that this module be included in perl core release)

Contact

The following mailing list should be consider the primary support mechanism for this module:

dnssec-tools-users@lists.sourceforge.net mail list

For bugs use:

dnssec-tools-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net mail list

Release Notes:

The initial beta release of this extension module has been developed against perl-5.8.8.

This module is modeled after 'Net::hostent' but has some additional features and does not rely on Class::Struct.

KNOWN BUGS:

No known bugs.

Installation

perl Makefile.PL
make

   make test                    (must have access to DNS)
   make install                 (requires root privilege)
Documentation

perldoc Net::addrinfo