mjd-perl-pm on Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:32:58 -0500


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Re: nslookup question


> 	What seems to be happening is that nslookup prints once
> if there is a valid domain name and the output is captured in $Text.
> However, it appears to be printing twice for an invalid domain name
> and the second print is not captured. Is there a work around to this
> problem?

If I were doing it, I would work around the problem by using Perl's
built-in 'gethostbyname' function, rather than by calling the external
'nslookup'.  Then the parsing problems would go away.
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