SPUG: May SPUG meet in May?

[C.J. Adams-Collier]

I've just confirmed with $client that the topic is kosher.  Note that I
learned the information I will be presenting while working on a "web
service" that allows users to manipulate their zone data, as well as a
jQuery front end that calls it via AJAX and exercises it in more ways
than I care to recall.

I think you can get an account and try it out free of charge, so long as
you can convince Liquid Web you have a pulse and a web browser:

https://www.stormondemand.com/manage/login.html

I've never made slides before.  I may just plug the monitor in to my vga
out and let you watch me abuse Net::DNS::RR::* and
Net::DNS::Zone::Parser via emacs.  I've had to perform some pretty
abusive tricks in order to retain default TTL values which result in
spew during test runs that look not unlike this:


Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS/RR.pm line 660.


I've also had to do things like the following in order to avoid FQDN
resolution/expansion shenanigans.


$rr->{name} =~ s/^\Q$origin\E\.?$/@/


I've further discovered that, unlike all of the other field accessors in
all of the the other Net:DNS::RR::* classes, the Net::DNS::RR::TXT
package provides a read-only  $rr->txtdata(), and any modification to
the txtdata field in the Net::DNS::RR object can only be done by
defiling its $self hash ref thus.


$rr->{txtdata} = $newVal;
delete $rr->{char_str_list};


Again, this will be a talk on how *not* to implement a zone file editor.
And there will be LOLCATS.

Kisses,

C.J.

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 21:13 -0700, Colin Meyer wrote:

> DNS zone editor in Perl? Awesome! Let's do it. 
> 
> -Colin.
> 
> p.s. top posting is teh awesome ... :D
> 
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 06:32:15PM -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> > I could do something on how not to implement a DNS zone editor.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 17:11 -0700, Andrew Sweger wrote:
> > > I dunno. I got nothing. I heard a rumor that Ingy is in Taiwan. I've
> > > scared off Noah Rømer.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have anything Perlish they'd like to share in two weeks on May
> > > 18th at the SPUG meeting? It doesn't have to be just one anyone or two
> > > hours long. It can be shorter.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
> > >                                 things can go wrong at once.
> > > 
> > > 
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