Greetings! I'm using the following code snippet to determine the DNS name associated with a particular IP address (Net::DNS::Resolver, Net::DNS::Packet and Net::DNS::RR are imported by the script): 
my $l_dns = Net::DNS::Resolver->new( nameservers => qw(127.0.0.1) );
my $l_response = $l_dns->query($l_ip);

if($l_dns->errorstring eq 'NOERROR')
  {
my $l_record;

  foreach $l_record ($l_response->answer())
    {
    if($l_record->type() eq 'PTR')
      {
      $l_dns_name = $l_record->name();
      last;
      }
    }
  }
else
  {
  $l_dns_name = $l_ip;
  }

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Here $l_dns_name and $l_ip are defined elsewhere in the script and contain the (just determined) DNS name and the original IP address.
The only problem: It merely returns the IP address in .in-addr-arpa format instead of a domain name associated with it.

What could be going wrong here?

And to answer the obligatory question in advance: No, gethostbyname et al. is not what I want - I intend to directly access the local name server for name resolution.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

In reply to Net::DNS::Resolver doesn't return the desired domain name by Robidu

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