Hi, I have written a Perl interface to the Hesiod library API, which I would like to contribute. The CPAN docs indicated that I should email to this list to registerto use PAUSE and/or register the module name. I have been using the name Net::Hesiod for the package, as that is where I believe it belongs, but am open to other suggestions. The package is currently working, but needs some minor work for porting to other systems, docs, etc. Tom Payerle [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~payerle Preferred CPAN ID: PAYERLE Contribution: Net::Hesiod - an interface to the Hesiod library. Provides non-OO routines hesiod_init, hesiod_resolve, etc. plus a simple OO wrapper ($obj=new Net::Hesiod; $obj->resolve(...)). Complete (but not quite finished) doc available at http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~payerle/Software/perl/Net/Hesiod.html DSLI: adch Description: Interface to Hesiod library API I confess that this is the first public discussion of this module. I have looked but have not found anything else in CPAN which does Hesiod lookups (except possibly in a rather raw fashion by Net::DNS). I am not sure how much Hesiod is actually used outside a couple of campuses, and even then relatively few who need to interface to it. However, as a systems person at a campus which does use Hesiod, I have been using crude Hesiod module (just calling /usr/local/bin/hesinfo and parsing output) for some time, and it seemed natural to do as a first project in a C-based extension to Perl. Tom Payerle Dept of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Maryland (301) 405-6973 College Park, MD 20742-4111 Fax: (301) 314-9525
