No, it's not pure Perl. It uses some XS code. I can't use it since in my 
project I am limited to standard ActivePerl modules. I could, of course, 
copy it if it wasn't for this C code.

Chris Wagner pisze:
> Why can't u use Net::DNS?  It's pure Perl so there shouldn't be any trouble
> using it anywhere on Windows.  It doesn't have to be installed globally to
> use it.  U can copy it into ur own directory and do a use lib in ur script
> to load it.  Even in the worst case scenario u can copy all of the Net::DNS
> code directly in ur own script.
> 
> 
> At 04:34 PM 10/20/2009 +0200, rocku wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I need to resolve a hostname by a specified nameserver. Currently I am 
>> using nslookup throught backticks, but it's output differs slightly 
>> between Windows versions and is hard to parse. I wanted to use Socket 
>> and something like inet_ntoa(inet_aton('hostname')) but this way I have 
>> no option to specify the nameserver to query. I am aware about Net::DNS, 
>> but unfortunately I cannot use it because it's not standard in 
>> ActivePerl 5.10. An ideal solution would be some WMI function, but I 
>> cannot find any for the task. Maybe using Win32::API?
>>
>> So my question is - how to query a specific nameserver about a DNS 'A' 
>> record?
> 
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