I need to deconstruct tinydns/djbdns SRV records to build zone files for Bind.
The records are created by our inhouse management system and stored in LDAP.


From LDAP I get:
\000\012\000\144\023\304\003pbx\007example\003com\000:3600
which is a mixture of octal and ascii and decimal. It is not a real string so split() et al will not be of use. (I think)

It breaks down as
\000\012=SRV priority where the first number is a multiple of 256 and the second is the remainder so \000\012 = (0*256) + 10 = 10
\000\144=SRV weight, as before \000\144 = (0*256) + 100 = 100
\023\304=SRV port, \023\304 = (19*256) + 196 = 5060
\003pbx\007example\003com\000 = SRV target, split on dots with the octal denoting how many chars in each part: pbx.example.com.
The final part after ":" is the TTL in decimal. 3600

Any advice on extracting the various fields from the LDAP reply would be greatly appreciated. Just converting the reply to ascii string would be a start.
I'm not a real coder as you can probably guess, so please bear that in mind.. many thanks.

In reply to deconstructing tinydns(djbdns) SRV records by 0xdeadbad

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