<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 2 jun. 2014, at 21:05, Dick Franks <<a href="mailto:rwfranks@acm.org">rwfranks@acm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Change was clearly anticipated by somebody because the perldoc for 0.74 also contains a warning:<br><br>IMPORTANT:<br><br> This method currently returns the "IO::Socket::INET" object that will be<br> used for reading, or "undef" on error. DO NOT DEPEND ON "axfr_start()"<br> returning a socket object. THIS MIGHT CHANGE in future releases.<br><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">And it just did.</div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>May 2002 this axfr_start feature was introduced. With the above warning. I cannot remember why and how that came in (whether it was a patch that was submitted at the time).</div><div><br></div><div>Even though I have more or less zoomed out of Net::DNS maintenance I have to agree with Calle, this is a change. I see axfr_start/axfr_next as useful utility methods, not as internal methods.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>—Olaf</div><div><br></div><div>PS. Today I confessed to myself that I will have even less time for coding in the future than I have currently. I will withdraw myself as co-maintainer from the Net::DNS suite and unsubscribe myself from the list. Note that Net::DNS has institutional commitment by NLnet Labs.</div></body></html>