Class Dnsruby::Name
In: lib/Dnsruby/name.rb
Parent: Object

Dnsruby::Name class

(RFC1035, section 3.1)

methods

  • Name::create(namestring)
  • Name#absolute?
  • Name#wild?
  • Name#subdomain_of?(other)
  • Name#labels

Methods

==   absolute?   create   downcase   eql?   hash   inspect   subdomain_of?   to_s   wild?  

Classes and Modules

Class Dnsruby::Name::Label

Constants

MaxNameLength = 255

Attributes

labels  [R] 

Public Class methods

Public Instance methods

eql?(other)

Alias for #==

subdomain_of?(other)

tests subdomain-of relation. 

  domain = Resolv::Name.create("y.z")
  p Resolv::Name.create("w.x.y.z").subdomain_of?(domain) #=> true
  p Resolv::Name.create("x.y.z").subdomain_of?(domain) #=> true
  p Resolv::Name.create("y.z").subdomain_of?(domain) #=> false
  p Resolv::Name.create("z").subdomain_of?(domain) #=> false
  p Resolv::Name.create("x.y.z.").subdomain_of?(domain) #=> false
  p Resolv::Name.create("w.z").subdomain_of?(domain) #=> false
to_s()

returns the domain name as a string.

The domain name doesn‘t have a trailing dot even if the name object is absolute. 

  p Resolv::Name.create("x.y.z.").to_s #=> "x.y.z"
  p Resolv::Name.create("x.y.z").to_s #=> "x.y.z"
wild?()

Is this name a wildcard?

[Validate]