These are configuration files used by hinfo. Only the first one found
(in order) is used. The use statement may be used to chain hinfo
configuration files.
The syntax is a small perl subset. Comments begin with # as the first
non-space character on a line and continue to the end of line.
Newlines are not treated specially otherwise, but should be used for
readability. Whitespace between tokens is ignored.
STATEMENTS
"use
The use statement will process another file as if its lines were
in the configuration file.
FILENAME should be a quoted (single or double) string.
ASSIGNMENTS
$SCALAR = VAL;
@ARRAY = ( [VAL,]... );
%HASH = ( [VAL1 => VAL2,]... );
In array and hash assignment, the comma before the close paren is optional.
VAL may be any of:
Number (decimal integers only)
Quoted string (With single quotes, \\ is treated as a single backslash
and \' is a single quote. With double quotes, other backslash
expansions are done.)
Array reference [ [VAL,]... ]
Hash reference { [VAL1 => VAL2,] }
Subroutine reference \&SUB (only a few subroutine names are supported)
Variable contents $VAR
Array contents (in array and array reference definitions only) @ARRAY
VARIABLES
The following variables are defined: (options that effect values are
in parens.)
$html
(-u) nonzero indicates html mode
$pager
(-p, -n) Pager used
$verbose
(-v) values -3 through 3 specify how many messages are displayed
$no_abuse
(-a)
$no_blackhole
(-b)
$no_whois
(-w)
$no_domain
(-d)
$whoistrash
Regular expression of what to ignore in whois output.
$whoismltrash
Regular expression of multi-line ignores in whois output.
$exclude
Regular expression of blackhole lists to not use. Used to
modify both @bhlists and @domainbased.
$expand_handles
(-e) Negative to never expand NIC handles
Zero to expand first NIC handle only
Positive to expand all NIC handles
$timeout
(-t) Number of seconds to wait for DNS and whois servers.
Timeouts only occur when there have been no results from any request for
this amount of time.
$whoistimeout
Timeout parameter to IO::Socket::INET->new call.
$nameserver
(-s)
$mx
(-m)
@bhlists
IP based blackhole lists to use.
@domainbased
Domain based blackhole lists to use.
@version
Displayed by --version
%registrys
Hash mapping most significant IP octet to whois server
%refer
Hash containing information about whois servers referring to
other whois servers.
EXAMPLE
# use system defaults
use "/etc/hinfo.conf";
# set verbose mode
$verbose = 3;
# exclude .blackholes.us DNSBLs
$exclude = "\.blackholes\.us$";
BLACKHOLE LISTS
@bhlists and
@domainbased are lists of DNSBL lists to check. Each list entry is a list reference.
"DNS
Domain to be postfixed to the reversed IP or domain name.
"List
Name of the DNSBL
URL
URL of the DNSBL. (Not including the leading http://)
"explain
Subroutine to explain the DNSBL results.
"explain
Used by explain subroutine
EXPLAIN SUBROUTINES
\\&explain_bitmask
Use the least significant bits of the IP returned as binary flags for each of
the entries the the list referenced by
parameter.
"\\&explain_iterate"
Use the least significant bits of the IP returned as an index into the list
referenced by
parameter.
\\&explain_txt
Fetch the TXT record from the DNSBL.
\\&explain_iterate_txt
Perform actions of both
\\&explain_iterate and
\\&explain_txt.
USAGE
Examples of @bhlists and @domainbased are in
/var/lib/hinfo/dnsbl.ins.pl, which is normally included with
the use statement.
Examples of %registries, %refer, $whoistrash, and
$whoismltrash are in /var/lib/hinfo/whois.ins.pl, which is
also normally included with use.
