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Revision: 1.2
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1 root 1.1 NAME
2 root 1.2 EV::ADNS -
3 root 1.1
4     SYNOPSIS
5 root 1.2 use EV;
6     use EV::ADNS;
7 root 1.1
8 root 1.2 EV::ADNS::submit "example.com", EV::ADNS::r_a, 0, sub {
9     my ($status, $expires, @a) = @_;
10     warn $a[0]; # "127.13.166.3" etc.
11     };
12    
13     EV::loop;
14 root 1.1
15     DESCRIPTION
16 root 1.2 This is a simple interface to libadns (asynchronous dns) that integrates
17     well and automatically into the EV event loop. The documentation for
18     libadns is vital to understand this module, see
19     <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/>.
20    
21     You can use it only with EV (directly or indirectly, e.g. via Glib::EV).
22     Apart from loading and using the "submit" function you need not do
23     anything (except run an EV event loop).
24    
25     OVERVIEW
26     All the constants/enums from adns.h are available in the EV::ADNS
27     namespace, without the "adns_" prefix, e.g. "adns_r_a" becomes
28     "EV::ADNS::r_a", "adns__qtf_deref" becomes "EV::ADNS::_qtf_deref" and so
29     on.
30    
31     FUNCTIONS
32     $query = EV::ADNS::submit "domain", $rrtype, $flags, $cb
33     Submits a new request to be handled. See the "adns_submit" C
34     function description for more details. The function optionally
35     returns a query object which can be used to cancel an in-progress
36     request. You do not need to store the query object, even if you
37     ignore it the query will proceed.
38    
39     The callback will be invoked with a result status, the time the
40     resource record validity expires and zero or more resource records,
41     one scalar per result record. Example:
42    
43     sub adns_cb {
44     my ($status, $expires, @rr) = @_;
45     if ($status == EV::ADNS::s_ok) {
46     use JSON::XS;
47     warn to_json \@rr;
48     }
49     }
50    
51     The format of result records varies considerably, here is some
52     cursory documentation of how each record will look like, depending
53     on the query type:
54    
55     EV::ADNS::rr_a
56     An IPv4 address in dotted quad (string) form.
57    
58     adns_r_ns_raw, adns_r_cname, adns_r_ptr, adns_r_ptr_raw
59     The resource record as a simple string.
60    
61     adns_r_txt
62     An arrayref of strings.
63    
64     adns_r_ns
65     A "host address", a hostname with any number of addresses (hint
66     records).
67    
68     Currently only the hostname will be stored, so this is alway an
69     arrayref with a single element of the hostname. Future versions
70     might add additional address entries.
71    
72     adns_r_hinfo
73     An arrayref consisting of the two strings.
74    
75     adns_r_rp, adns_r_rp_raw
76     An arrayref with two strings.
77    
78     adns_r_mx
79     An arrayref consisting of the priority and a "host address" (see
80     "adns_r_ns"). Example:
81    
82     [10,"mail10.example.com"]
83    
84     adns_r_mx_raw:
85     An arrayref consisting of the priority and the hostname, e.g.
86     "[10, "mail.example.com"]".
87    
88     adns_r_soa, adns_r_soa_raw
89     An arrayref consisting of the primary nameserver, admin name,
90     serial, refresh, retry expire and minimum times, e.g.:
91    
92     ["ns.example.net","hostmaster@example.net",2000001102,86400,21600,2592000,172800]
93    
94     The "raw" form doesn't mangle the e-mail address.
95    
96     adns_r_srv_raw
97     An arrayref consisting of the priority, weight, port and
98     hostname, e.g.:
99    
100     [10,10,5060,"sip1.example.net"]
101    
102     adns_r_srv
103     The same as "adns_r_srv_raw", but the hostname is replaced by a
104     "host address" (see "adns_r_ns").
105    
106     adns_r_unknown
107     A single octet string with the raw contents.
108    
109     anything else
110     Currently "undef".
111 root 1.1
112 root 1.2 $query->cancel
113     Cancels a request that is in progress.
114 root 1.1
115     SEE ALSO
116 root 1.2 EV, Net::ADNS another interface to adns, maybe better, but without real
117     support to integrate it into other event loops.
118 root 1.1
119     AUTHOR
120     Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
121     http://home.schmorp.de/
122