[Caml-list] dns client

[Caml-list] dns client

[Anastasia Gornostaeva]

Hello.

Is there any dns client written on Ocaml? At least i want to get records with
specified types such as A, NS, MX, etc.
I cannot write a wrapper to C library, i'm afraid about GC problems.
Thanks. 

ermine

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Re: [Caml-list] dns client

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:35:29PM +0400, Anastasia Gornostaeva wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Is there any dns client written on Ocaml? At least i want to get records with
> specified types such as A, NS, MX, etc.
> I cannot write a wrapper to C library, i'm afraid about GC problems.

If you really don't want to write a wrapper, how about using an
external program, eg:

let chan = Unix.open_process_in "host -t mx ibm.com"
(* some code to parse the 7th field of the response - eg. using Pcre *)

However writing C wrappers couldn't really be much simpler with OCaml
(compare it to Perl or Java some time!).

Rich.

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Re: [Caml-list] dns client

[Anastasia Gornostaeva]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:51:19PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:35:29PM +0400, Anastasia Gornostaeva wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Is there any dns client written on Ocaml? At least i want to get records with
> > specified types such as A, NS, MX, etc.
> > I cannot write a wrapper to C library, i'm afraid about GC problems.
> 
> If you really don't want to write a wrapper, how about using an
> external program, eg:
> 
> let chan = Unix.open_process_in "host -t mx ibm.com"
> (* some code to parse the 7th field of the response - eg. using Pcre *)

Well, it is an interesting solution. but what about portability?
I saw, Erlang/OTP has more nice solution - a module inet_res that allows some
kinda of my requests above.
 
> However writing C wrappers couldn't really be much simpler with OCaml
> (compare it to Perl or Java some time!).

I know, I ask here for ready solutions :)

ermine

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Re: [Caml-list] dns client

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:35:29PM +0400, Anastasia Gornostaeva wrote:
> Is there any dns client written on Ocaml? At least i want to get
> records with specified types such as A, NS, MX, etc.  I cannot write
> a wrapper to C library, i'm afraid about GC problems.

An easy, Unix-specific approach, but probably not the highest performance:
    Unix.open_process_in "dig ..."

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Re: [Caml-list] dns client

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:17:08PM +0400, Anastasia Gornostaeva wrote:
> Well, it is an interesting solution. but what about portability?
> I saw, Erlang/OTP has more nice solution - a module inet_res that allows some
> kinda of my requests above.

Well there are two issues here: how much portability do _you_ need?
and how portable would bindings to a C library be?

If you specifically need this to work on multiple (Unix + non-Unix)
systems, then using open_process_in/popen wouldn't be the way to
go. However I cannot answer that question, only you can.

Would C bindings to the bind resolver library be any more portable I
wonder? (Actually I don't have the faintest clue whether this library
is available on Windows).

A pure OCaml resolver library would be a massive chunk of work, and
pretty pointless to boot.

Rich.

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