yes they do answer with debug on. So was it the intent of the person who wrote this module to have this code act in this way? What I am doing wrong? Do you have a recommendation on how to make this more usable? Yes $query is undef.

CODE OUTPUT:

;; query(##.##.##.##)
;; setting up an AF_INET() family type UDP socket
;; send_udp(##.##.###.##:53)
;; answer from ###.##.###.##:53 : 43 bytes
;; HEADER SECTION
;; id = 6637
;; qr = 1    opcode = QUERY    aa = 0    tc = 0    rd = 0
;; ra = 1    ad = 0    cd = 0    rcode  = SERVFAIL
;; qdcount = 1  ancount = 0  nscount = 0  arcount = 0

;; QUESTION SECTION (1 record)
;; ##.##.###.##.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION (0 records)

;; AUTHORITY SECTION (0 records)

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION (0 records)
RCODE: SERVFAIL; trying next nameserver
;; send_udp(##.##.###.##:53)
;; answer from ##.##.###.##:53 : 474 bytes
;; HEADER SECTION
;; id = 6637
;; qr = 1    opcode = QUERY    aa = 0    tc = 0    rd = 0
;; ra = 1    ad = 0    cd = 0    rcode  = NOERROR
;; qdcount = 1  ancount = 0  nscount = 13  arcount = 13

;; QUESTION SECTION (1 record)
;; ##.##.###.##.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION (0 records)

;; AUTHORITY SECTION (13 records)
.       10302   IN      NS      i.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      g.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      k.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      b.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      c.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      e.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      d.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      m.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      l.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      j.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      a.root-servers.net.
.       10302   IN      NS      h.root-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION (13 records)
i.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       192.36.148.17
g.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       192.112.36.4
k.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       193.0.14.129
b.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       192.228.79.201
c.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       192.33.4.12
f.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       192.5.5.241
e.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       192.203.230.10
d.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       128.8.10.90
m.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       202.12.27.33
l.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       198.32.64.12
j.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       192.58.128.30
a.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       198.41.0.4
h.root-servers.net.     10302   IN      A       128.63.2.53

$VAR1 = undef;
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