I recently had want to check the forward and reverse lookups for the internal DNS I administer. No problem perl to the rescue and in a short amount of time I had cobbled together a quick and dirty solution that worked for the site. I went home feeling quite pleased with myself and I thought, "hey this could be useful to others I should tidy it up and share it". The part of the code which I was most unhappy with was the parsing of the named.conf file and it occured to me (too late you cry?) that some-one might have already written a module to parse named.conf. Sure enough some-one had (BIND::Conf Parser) AND it comes with a script to check forward and reverse lookups! So the time I spent creating my quick and dirty hack could have been spent on other things or building on some-one elses work and making the world a better place (TM). So always remember "the three chief virtues of a programmer: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris" and CPAN is your friend!

--
my $chainsaw = 'Perl';

In reply to CPAN is your friend by greenFox

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.