Restart the DNS Server service (Perl)

This code can be found in Chapter 14 of DNS on Windows Server 2003

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# Restart the DNS Server service

# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# From the book "DNS on Windows Server 2003" 
# By Cricket Liu, Matt Larson & Robbie Allen
# Publisher: O'Reilly and Associates
# ISBN: 0-596-00562-8
# Book web site: http://rallenhome.com/books/dnsonw2k3/toc.html
# ---------------------------------------------------------------

use Win32::OLE;

$strServer = 'terminator.movie.edu';

$objDNS = Win32::OLE->GetObject('winMgmts:\\\\' . $strServer . '\\root\\MicrosoftDNS');
$objDNSServer = $objDNS->Get('MicrosoftDNS_Server.Name="."');

$objDNSServer->StopService();
if ((0 + Win32::OLE::LastError())) {
    print 'StopService failed: ' . ('' . Win32::OLE::LastError()), "\n";
    exit 0;
}

$objDNSServer->StartService();
if ((0 + Win32::OLE::LastError())) {
    print 'StartService failed: ' . ('' . Win32::OLE::LastError()), "\n";
    exit 0;
}

print "Restart successful\n";

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