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Basics of how to make personalized online dns tools?
Can someone point to some instructions on how to make online DNS tools? I’d like to make something similar to dnsstuff.com — not necessarily because I think I can do it better, but because I’d like to understand how a site like that would work. I think I’ll probably need to use perl. Are there any online tutorials for crafting these types of tools?
OK, I did/do this for my home based server
I set up a Scheduled task every 20 mins.that calls a batch script, it reads:
get
(remote.com is not the real address)
The batch script uses the get function from LWP module of Perl that is installed on my computer/( home server)
This just calls a Perl script (come_from.pl ) on a Remote Web accessible machine that I have access to.
That Perl script grabs the IP of the calling batch script
It then writes it to a .html file where anyone I refer can go to find My IP, or click a link that takes them to my dynamic IP.
I’d post the code but it is extremely unlikely that you will have this set-up yourself.
Grabbing the IP in Perl just uses the Server Variable
$ENV{’REMOTE_ADDR’}
For this to work you need some sort of script/program on local machine that either runs all the time in the background making regular calls to a web-accessable script, or is scheduled in some way to run every few minutes.
THe Perl script (it could be any scripting language) must write to a file that can be accessed via a URL.
That’s it in essence -quite simple really once you break it down.
Do it, try using Windows scripting language instead of Perl LWP on your home machine
Good Luck