NAME

Mail::RBL - Perl extension to access RBL-style host verification services

SYNOPSIS

use Mail::RBL;

my $list = new Mail::RBL('list.org');

if ($list->check($host)) {
    print "$host is in the list";
}

DESCRIPTION

This module eases the task of checking if a given host is in the list. The methods available are described below:

->new(suffix)

Creates a list handle. The suffix parameter is mandatory and specifies which suffix to append to the queries.

->check($host)

$host can be either a hostname or an IP address. In the case of an IP Address, any trailing netmask (anything after a '/' character) will be ignored. In the case of a hostname, all the IP addresses will be looked up and checked against the list. If any of the addresses is in the list, the host will be considered in the list as a whole.

AUTHOR

Luis E. Munoz <lem@cantv.net>

SEE ALSO

perl(1).