Maintenance Blog

I am pleased to announce version 0.77 of Net::DNS.

This release is primarily concerned with fixing some regressions that have arisen since the 0.75 and 0.76 release. It has the axfr_start and axfr_next functions of Net::DNS::Resolver restored.

Net::DNS::Resolver::axfr in scalar context now returns an iterator interface to provide gradual reception with zone transfers.

Also processing of resolver configuration directives has been improved to be more robust, sensible and secure. An initial instantiation will set the class defaults always, so that subsequent instantiations – without explicit config_file argument or other overrides – will use those defaults and will not start processing environment variables or insecure locations for config files.

For a complete list of changes and bugfixes see the CHANGES file.