Thanks for responding so quickly!

I'm not very familiar with Net::DNS but I tried your suggestion: 
my $data = "\000\012\000\144\023\304\003pbx\007example\003com\000:3600
+";
$offset=0;
( $rr, $next ) = decode Net::DNS::RR( \$data, $offset);
print "RR = $rr\n";
print "NEXT = $next\n";
exit;

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corrupt wire-format data at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS/RR.pm line 242.

In reply to Re^2: deconstructing tinydns(djbdns) SRV records by 0xdeadbad
in thread deconstructing tinydns(djbdns) SRV records by 0xdeadbad

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