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lib::Net::DNS::RR::LOC

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: perl 5.004, patch 04
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NAME

Net::DNS::RR::LOC - DNS LOC resource record 

SYNOPSIS

use Net::DNS::RR; 

DESCRIPTION

Class for DNS Location (LOC) resource records. See RFC 1876 fordetails. 

METHODS

version

    print "version = ", $rr->version, "\n";

Returns the version number of the representation; programs shouldalways check this. Net::DNS currently supports only version 0.

size

    print "size = ", $rr->size, "\n";

Returns the diameter of a sphere enclosing the described entity,in centimeters.

horiz_pre

    print "horiz_pre = ", $rr->horiz_pre, "\n";

Returns the horizontal precision of the data, in centimeters.

vert_pre

    print "vert_pre = ", $rr->vert_pre, "\n";

Returns the vertical precision of the data, in centimeters.

latitude

    print "latitude = ", $rr->latitude, "\n";

Returns the latitude of the center of the sphere described bythe size method, in thousandths of a second of arc. 2**31represents the equator; numbers above that are north latitude.

longitude

    print "longitude = ", $rr->longitude, "\n";

Returns the longitude of the center of the sphere described bythe size method, in thousandths of a second of arc. 2**31represents the prime meridian; numbers above that are eastlongitude.

latlon

    ($lat, $lon) = $rr->latlon;    system("xearth", "-pos", "fixed $lat $lon");

Returns the latitude and longitude as floating-point degrees.Positive numbers represent north latitude or east longitude;negative numbers represent south latitude or west longitude.

altitude

    print "altitude = ", $rr->altitude, "\n";

Returns the altitude of the center of the sphere described bythe size method, in centimeters, from a base of 100,000mbelow the WGS 84 reference spheroid used by GPS. 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Fuhr. All rights reserved. This program is freesoftware; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms asPerl itself.

Some of the code and documentation is based on RFC 1876 and on codecontributed by Christopher Davis. 

SEE ALSO

the perl(1) manpage, the Net::DNS manpage, the Net::DNS::Resolver manpage, the Net::DNS::Packet manpage,the Net::DNS::Header manpage, the Net::DNS::Question manpage, the Net::DNS::RR manpage,RFC 1876

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