Information about the package, perl-Net-DNS, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Net-DNS package is designed for, DNS resolver modules for Perl.
Package Name:
perl-Net-DNS
Summary:
DNS resolver modules for Perl
Description:
Net::DNS is a collection of Perl modules that act as a Domain Name System (DNS) resolver. It allows the programmer to perform DNS queries that are beyond the capabilities of gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr. The programmer should be somewhat familiar with the format of a DNS packet and its various sections. See RFC 1035 or DNS and BIND (Albitz & Liu) for details.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.65
Release:
5.el6
Size:
232 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-Net-DNS package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Net-DNS
This command will install perl-Net-DNS on the server.
yum remove perl-Net-DNS
This command will un-install perl-Net-DNS on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Net-DNS, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Net-DNS
This command will un-install perl-Net-DNS on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl-Net-DNS when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Net-DNS
This command will update perl-Net-DNS to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Net-DNS, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Net-DNS
This command will update perl-Net-DNS to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl-Net-DNS when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Net-DNS
This command will show you core information about the perl-Net-DNS package.
yum deplist perl-Net-DNS
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Net-DNS. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update perl-Net-DNS
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Net-DNS. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.