NAME

       Net::DNS::DomainName - DNS domain name wire representation

SYNOPSIS

           use Net::DNS::DomainName;

           $object = new Net::DNS::DomainName('example.com');
           $name = $object->name;
           $data = $object->encode;

           ( $object, $next ) = decode Net::DNS::DomainName( \$data, $offset );

DESCRIPTION

       The Net::DNS::DomainName module implements the concrete representation of DNS domain names used within
       DNS packets.

       Net::DNS::DomainName defines methods for encoding and decoding wire format octet strings as defined in
       RFC1035. All other behaviour, including the new() constructor, is inherited from Net::DNS::Domain.

       The Net::DNS::DomainName1035 and Net::DNS::DomainName2535 packages implement disjoint domain name
       subtypes which provide the name compression and canonicalisation specified by RFC1035 and RFC2535.  These
       are necessary to meet the backward compatibility requirements introduced by RFC3597.

METHODS

   new
           $object = new Net::DNS::DomainName('example.com');

       Creates a domain name object which identifies the domain specified by the character string argument.

   decode
           $object = decode Net::DNS::DomainName( \$buffer, $offset, $hash );

           ( $object, $next ) = decode Net::DNS::DomainName( \$buffer, $offset, $hash );

       Creates a domain name object which represents the DNS domain name identified by the wire-format data at
       the indicated offset within the data buffer.

       The argument list consists of a reference to a scalar containing the wire-format data and specified
       offset. The optional reference to a hash table provides improved efficiency of decoding compressed names
       by exploiting already cached compression pointers.

       The returned offset value indicates the start of the next item in the data buffer.

   encode
           $data = $object->encode;

       Returns the wire-format representation of the domain name suitable for inclusion in a DNS packet buffer.

Net::DNS::DomainName1035

       Net::DNS::DomainName1035 implements a subclass of domain name objects which are to be encoded using the
       compressed wire format defined in RFC1035.

           use Net::DNS::DomainName;

           $object = new Net::DNS::DomainName1035('compressible.example.com');
           $data   = $object->encode( $offset, $hash );

           ( $object, $next ) = decode Net::DNS::DomainName1035( \$data, $offset );

       Note that RFC3597 implies that the RR types defined in RFC1035 section 3.3 are the only types eligible
       for compression.

   encode
           $data = $object->encode( $offset, $hash );

       Returns the wire-format representation of the domain name suitable for inclusion in a DNS packet buffer.

       The optional arguments are the offset within the packet data where the domain name is to be stored and a
       reference to a hash table used to index compressed names within the packet.

       If the hash reference is undefined, encode() returns the lowercase uncompressed canonical representation
       defined in RFC2535(8.1).

Net::DNS::DomainName2535

       Net::DNS::DomainName2535 implements a subclass of domain name objects which are to be encoded using
       uncompressed wire format.

       Note that RFC3597, and latterly RFC4034, specifies that the lower case canonical encoding defined in
       RFC2535 is to be used for RR types defined prior to RFC3597.

           use Net::DNS::DomainName;

           $object = new Net::DNS::DomainName2535('incompressible.example.com');
           $data   = $object->encode( $offset, $hash );

           ( $object, $next ) = decode Net::DNS::DomainName2535( \$data, $offset );

   encode
           $data = $object->encode( $offset, $hash );

       Returns the uncompressed wire-format representation of the domain name suitable for inclusion in a DNS
       packet buffer.

       If the hash reference is undefined, encode() returns the lowercase canonical form defined in
       RFC2535(8.1).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c)2009-2011 Dick Franks.

       All rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

SEE ALSO

       perl, Net::DNS, Net::DNS::Domain, RFC1035, RFC2535, RFC3597, RFC4034

perl v5.18.1                                       2012-01-27                          Net::DNS::DomainName(3pm)