$ perl cmp_hosts.pl Querying DNS for domain.name - Zone transfer ... ;; axfr_start(domain.name, IN) ;; axfr_start nameserver = 198.205.83.10 ;; read_tcp: expecting 2 bytes ;; read_tcp: received 2 bytes ;; read_tcp: expecting 37 bytes ;; read_tcp: received 37 bytes ;; received 37 bytes ;; HEADER SECTION ;; id = 32651 ;; qr = 1 opcode = QUERY aa = 0 tc = 0 rd = 1 ;; ra = 0 ad = 0 cd = 0 rcode = NXDOMAIN ;; qdcount = 1 ancount = 0 nscount = 0 arcount = 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION (1 record) ;; domain.name. IN AXFR ;; ANSWER SECTION (0 records) ;; AUTHORITY SECTION (0 records) ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION (0 records) ;; Response code from server: NXDOMAIN $VAR1 = bless( { 'persistent_tcp' => 0, 'cdflag' => 1, 'stayopen' => 0, 'querytime' => undef, 'udppacketsize' => 0, 'srcaddr' => '0.0.0.0', 'domain' => 'domain.name', 'answersize' => 0, 'answerfrom' => '', 'sockets' => { 'dns_server1_ip:53' => bless( \*Symbol::GEN0, 'IO::Socket::INET' ) }, 'debug' => 1, 'axfr_soa_count' => 0, 'searchlist' => [ 'domain.name' ], 'defnames' => 1, 'retrans' => 5, 'tcp_timeout' => 120, 'errorstring' => 'Response code from server: NXDOMAIN', 'nameservers' => [ 'dns_server1_ip', 'dns_server2_ip' ], 'port' => 53, 'axfr_sel' => bless( [ ', 1, undef, undef, undef, $VAR1->{'sockets'}{'dns_server1_ip:53'} ], 'IO::Select' ), 'usevc' => 0, 'retry' => 4, 'axfr_rr' => [], 'igntc' => 0, 'dnsrch' => 1, 'recurse' => 1, 'udp_timeout' => undef, 'persistent_udp' => 0, 'dnssec' => 0, 'tsig_rr' => undef, 'srcport' => 0 }, 'Net::DNS::Resolver' );