On 10/30/2011 09:53 PM, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote:
The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:modid: DNS::Bananafonana DSLIP: Rdpfp description: Bananafonana encoding / decoding for DNS userid: FOXEY (Michiel Fokke) chapterid: 5 (Networking_Devices_IPC) communities: cvs repo @sourceforge (project Bananafonana) similar: Math::Base85 rationale: The module provides 3 function for encoding and decoding numbers (specifically ip addresses) in Bananafonana format: RFC 1924 describes a compact, fixed-size representation of IPv6 addresses which uses a base 85 number system. The base 85 numbers (from 0 to 84) are as follows: 0..9 A..Z a..z ! # $ %& ( ) * + - ; < => ? @ ^ _ ` { | } ~ In order to let human beings pronounce the resulting string more easily and to be able to use base 85 encoding in DNS naming schemes, an alternative encoding scheme is used, based on 85 consonant-vowel pairs, as suggested by DGolden on Slashdot (http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=649579&cid=24654733). This scheme is named after the children song "Bananafonana". The functions are mainly useful for encoding and decoding of ipv4 and ipv6 addresses in pointer (PTR) records in a DNS server (e.g. for automatic generation of matching hostname& ptr record for dialup or adsl users). For this reason, I've chosen the DNS prefix in the namespace. I am happy to take better suiting suggestions...
Is this intended as a joke or production use? If the former, it should be in the Acme:: top level namespace.
Best regards, Steffen
