dns/p5-Net-DNS-Zone-Parser 0.02_1 FreeBSD

The Net::DNS::Zone::Parser should be considered a preprocessor that "normalizes" a zonefile.

It will read a zonefile in a format conforming to the relevant RFCs with the addition of BIND's GENERATE directive from disk and will write fully specified resource records (RRs) to a filehandle. Whereby:

• All comments are stripped
• There is one RR per line
• Each RR is fully expanded i.e. all domain names are fully qualified (canonicalised) and the CLASS and TTLs are specified.
• Some RRs may be 'stripped' from the source or otherwise processed. For details see the 'read' method.

Note that this module does not have a notion of what constitutes a valid zone, it only parses. For example, the parser will happilly parse RRs with ownernames that are below in another zone because a NS RR elsewhere in the zone.