Net::Nslookup help needed

gw1500se has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This seems like such a simple module yet I cannot get it to work. I am running this with Perl 5.10 on Cygwin. Here is my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Net::Nslookup;

my $name=nslookup(domain=>"yahoo.com");
print("name=$name\n");
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The result is just 'name='. There is no error so '$name' must be a defined variable but contains a null string.

There were no errors when I installed the module via MCPAN. When I turn debug on all I get is:

Performing 'A' lookup on `yahoo.com' at ....

I don't see how I can screw this up but obviously I am doing something wrong. Can someone help me with this? TIA.

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Re: Net::Nslookup help needed by oko1 (Deacon) on Aug 28, 2008 at 01:31 UTC
Did you read the documentation for this module? Rather than guessing about what's happening (incidentally, your original script works just fine for me), try turning on the debugging option - just as the docs recommend. Since you're having problems, you should also specify the lookup type, as shown in the docs, instead of hoping for a reasonable default to be assigned. `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Net::Nslookup; $Net::Nslookup::DEBUG++; $Net::Nslookup::DEBUG_NET_DNS++; print "IP (A record): " . nslookup(host => "yahoo.com", type => 'A');` [download] Do note that most types of lookups actually return a list rather than a simple scalar. Again, the docs are pretty clear on the issue. -- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -- HG Wells	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Net::Nslookup help needed by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Aug 27, 2008 at 23:28 UTC
`#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Net::Nslookup; my $name = Net::Nslookup->nslookup; $name = nslookup( domain => 'yahoo.com' ); print "name=$name\n";` [download] Updated: added "name=$name\n"	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Net::Nslookup help needed by gw1500se (Beadle) on Aug 27, 2008 at 23:45 UTC
Thanks for the reply. That doesn't seem to help. The only difference is that I get this additional line from the debug: Performing 'A' lookup on `net::nslookup' at ... I don't know what the additional line is supposed to do but it appears that it is running nslookup using itself as the domain name.	[reply]
Re: Net::Nslookup help needed by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Aug 28, 2008 at 17:32 UTC
Can you do an nslookup from a Command Prompt? `G:\>nslookup yahoo.com Server: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Name: yahoo.com Addresses: 68.180.206.184, 206.190.60.37` [download]	[reply] [d/l]