Im trying to send a DNS any request with Net::DNS::Packet. For some reason when i do this in perl: my $str = '8.8.8.8'; my $dnspacket = new Net::DNS::Packet('vmware.com'.". 86400 ANY" +$str); my $dnsdata = $dnspacket->data; Here is the request when using my script Captured with TCPDUMP: 
03:34:25.238020 IP 94.102.49.168.59681 > 8.8.8.8.53: 59189+ PTR? 8.8.i
+n-addr.arpa. (34)
    0x0000:  0021 1b82 5000 0025 90e0 10e3 0800 4500  .!..P..%......E.
    0x0010:  003e 5969 4000 4011 4128 5e66 31a8 0808  .>Yi@.@.A(^f1...
    0x0020:  0808 e921 0035 002a a059 e735 0100 0001  ...!.5.*.Y.5....
    0x0030:  0000 0000 0000 0138 0138 0769 6e2d 6164  .......8.8.in-ad
    0x0040:  6472 0461 7270 6100 000c 0001            dr.arpa.....

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Here is the request when using Dig Captured with TCPDUMP: 
03:32:27.263486 IP 94.102.49.168.38437 > 8.8.8.8.53: 17767+ [1au] ANY?
+ vmware.com. (39)
    0x0000:  0021 1b82 5000 0025 90e0 10e3 0800 4500  .!..P..%......E.
    0x0010:  0043 0000 4000 4011 9a8c 5e66 31a8 0808  .C..@.@...^f1...
    0x0020:  0808 9625 0035 002f a05e 4567 0100 0001  ...%.5./.^Eg....
    0x0030:  0000 0000 0001 0676 6d77 6172 6503 636f  .......vmware.co
    0x0040:  6d00 00ff 0001 0000 29ff ff00 0000 0000  m.......).......
    0x0050:  00                                       .

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How could i get the same type of request to be sent from my script?

In reply to DNS any request by Anonymous Monk

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