NAME

POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::QueryDNS - A POE::Component::IRC plugin for IRC based DNS queries

VERSION

version 1.04

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use warnings;
use POE qw(Component::IRC Component::IRC::Plugin::QueryDNS);

my $nickname = 'qdns' . $$;
my $ircname = 'QueryDNS Bot';
my $ircserver = $ENV{IRCSERVER} || 'irc.bleh.net';
my $port = 6667;
my $channel = '#IRC.pm';

my $irc = POE::Component::IRC->spawn(
      nick => $nickname,
      server => $ircserver,
      port => $port,
      ircname => $ircname,
      debug => 0,
      plugin_debug => 1,
      options => { trace => 0 },
) or die "Oh noooo! $!";

POE::Session->create(
      package_states => [
              'main' => [ qw(_start irc_001) ],
      ],
);

$poe_kernel->run();
exit 0;

sub _start {
  # Create and load our QueryDNS plugin
  $irc->plugin_add( 'QueryDNS' =>
      POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::QueryDNS->new() );

  $irc->yield( register => 'all' );
  $irc->yield( connect => { } );
  undef;
}

sub irc_001 {
  $irc->yield( join => $channel );
  undef;
}

DESCRIPTION

POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::QueryDNS is a POE::Component::IRC plugin that provides DNS query facilities to the channels it occupies and via private messaging.

It uses POE::Component::Client::DNS to do non-blocking DNS queries. By default the plugin attempts to use POE::Component::IRC's internal PoCo-Client-DNS resolver object, but will spawn its own copy. You can supply your own resolver object via the constructor.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

Creates a new plugin object. Takes some optional parameter:

  'command', define the command that will trigger DNS queries, default is 'dns';
  'privmsg', set to a true value to specify that the bot should reply with PRIVMSG instead of
	     NOTICE to privmsgs that it receives.
  'resolver', specify a POE::Component::Client::DNS object that the plugin should use,
	      the default is to try and use POE::Component::IRC's resolver;

IRC USAGE

The bot replies to requests in the following form, when addressed:

dns <query> <optional_type>

Of course, if you changed the command in the constructor it will be something different to dns.

query maybe a hostname, a zone, an IP address, anything that you want to query DNS for.

type can be A, PTR, CNAME, NS, MX, TXT, AAAA, SRV or SOA. If it isn't specified the default is A unless the query is an IP address in which case the default is PTR.

Some examples:

# No type, defaults to 'A'
< you> bot: dns www.perl.org
< bot> www.perl.org [ CNAME=x3.develooper.com. A=63.251.223.163 ]

# No type, defaults to 'PTR' because the query is an IP address
< you> bot: dns 63.251.223.163
< bot> 63.251.223.163 [ PTR=x3.develooper.com. ]

# Specify a type of 'MX'
< you> bot: dns perl.org mx
< bot> perl.org [ MX=5 mx.develooper.com. ]

# Specify a type of 'TXT'
< you> bot: dns perl.org txt
< bot> No answers for perl.org

# Specify a type of 'SOA'
< you> bot: dns perl.org soa
< bot> perl.org [ SOA=ns1.us.bitnames.com:dnsoper.bitnames.com:2008011304:5400:5400:604800:300 ]

SEE ALSO

POE::Component::Client::DNS

AUTHOR

Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Chris Williams.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.