Hello - For those who may be interested, I have made the first release of my port of perl's Net::DNS library to Ruby. The project is called pnet-dns, and can be found here : http://rubyforge.org/projects/pnet-dns/ This project is a direct port from the perl, warts and all. Any perl code using the library can be ported quickly and easily to Ruby. All the perl tests have been ported and run successfully (from perl Net::DNS version 0.57). Thanks, Alex.