Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I'm a little stuck, just how do you lookup MX records using perl? Plain DNS lookups are no problem, but I need something to do dig style lookups..... I'm missing something obvious I know :) Any examples would be very greatfully recived. TIA.

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Re: MX Lookups
by grinder (Bishop) on Jun 10, 2002 at 20:31 UTC
    If you have Net::DNS lying around this is a snap to write:

    #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use Net::DNS;
my $dns = new Net::DNS::Resolver;

for my $domain( @ARGV ) {
    my $mx = $dns->query( $domain, 'MX' );

    print "$domain\n";
    foreach my $rr ($mx->answer) {
        print "\t", $rr->exchange, ' (', $rr->preference, ")\n";
    }
}
__END__

output:

% ./mx perl.org perlmonk.org perlmonks.org perl.com
perl.org
        lux.valueclick.com (20)
        perlmail.valueclick.com (10)
perlmonk.org
        perlmonk.org (10)
perlmonks.org
        mail.egl.net (5)
perl.com
        mail.perl.com (0)

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    print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u'
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Re: MX Lookups
by neilwatson (Priest) on Jun 10, 2002 at 19:59 UTC
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Re: MX Lookups
by hakkr (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2002 at 12:37 UTC
    Cpan module Email::Valid does an Mx lookup and syntax check
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