NAME

DNS::Unbound - A Perl interface to NLNetLabs’s Unbound recursive DNS resolver

SYNOPSIS

    my $dns = DNS::Unbound->new()->set_option( verbosity => 2 );

    my $verbosity = $dns->get_option( 'verbosity' );

    $dns->set_option( verbosity => 1 + $verbosity );

    my $res_hr = $dns->resolve( 'cpan.org', 'NS' );

    # See below about encodings in “data”.
    my @ns = map { $dns->decode_name($_) } @{ $res_hr->{'data'} };

METHODS

CLASS->new()

Instantiates this class.

$result_hr = OBJ->resolve( $NAME, $TYPE [, $CLASS ] )

Runs a synchronous query for a given $NAME and $TYPE. $TYPE may be expressed numerically or, for convenience, as a string. $CLASS is optional and defaults to 1 (IN), which is probably what you want.

Returns a reference to a hash that corresponds to a libunbound struct ub_result (cf. libunbound(3)), excluding len, answer_packet, and answer_len.

NOTE: Members of data are in their DNS-native RDATA encodings. (libunbound doesn’t track which record type uses which encoding, so neither does DNS::Unbound.) To decode some common record types, see "CONVENIENCE FUNCTIONS" below.

OBJ->set_option( $NAME => $VALUE )

Sets a configuration option. Returns OBJ.

$value = OBJ->get_option( $NAME )

Gets a configuration option’s value.

CLASS->unbound_version()

Gives the libunbound version string.

CONVENIENCE FUNCTIONS

Note that Socket provides the inet_ntoa() and inet_ntop() functions for decoding A and AAAA records.

The following may be called either as object methods or as static functions (but not as class methods):

$decoded = decode_name($encoded)

Decodes a DNS name. Useful for, e.g., NS query results.

Note that this will normally include a trailing . because of the trailing NUL byte in an encoded DNS name.

$strings_ar = decode_character_strings($encoded)

Decodes a list of character-strings into component strings, returned as an array reference. Useful for TXT query results.

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/FGasper/p5-DNS-Unbound

THANK YOU

Special thanks to ATOOMIC for making some helpful review notes.