DNS Propagation Tracker script - README

This is a simple script to query various DNS servers for a given hostname/IP
and display the results they returned.

This is useful to see whether a recent DNS change has propagated well, or to
make sure that all nameservers for a given domain are returning the same
answers.

This is a very early version of the code which I've decided to release; given
time, I may release future versions, probably refactoring the code into a 
reusable module to release to CPAN, moving the HTML code into a template etc.

However, for now, it works, and if you find it useful, great :)


LICENCE

This script is released under the GNU Affero Public Licence, v3.0.

A copy of the GNU Affero General Public Licence is included with this script as
distributed, or can be obtained from: http://www.gnu.org/licences/


INSTALLATION

Copy dns-propagation-tracker.pl somewhere that Apache can execute it as a CGI
script (on most servers, this means somewhere in your "cgi-bin" directory).

Copy the file dns-servers-list into the same directory you put the main script
in (or amend the main script with the full path to it).

This tool uses the jQuery library for some UI effects; please download a copy
of the jQuery library (free) from http://www.jquery.com/ and update the
$jquery_url variable in dns-propagation-tracker.pl to refer to the location of
your jquery.js file.

If you want to add/remove servers, simply edit the dns-servers-list file.


AUTHOR

This script was written by David Precious (davidp@preshweb.co.uk).

I hope it's helpful to you; if you find it useful, I'd greatly appreciate an
email to let me know, perhaps including the URL you're using it at.



$Id: README.txt 447 2008-09-04 19:01:24Z davidp $