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Net::hostent(3p)Perl Programmers Reference Guide Net::hostent(3p)

NAME
     Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in
     gethost*() functions

SYNOPSIS
      use Net::hostent;

DESCRIPTION
     This module's default exports override the core gethost-
     byname() and gethostbyaddr() functions, replacing them with
     versions that return "Net::hostent" objects.  This object
     has methods that return the similarly named structure field
     name from the C's hostent structure from netdb.h; namely
     name, aliases, addrtype, length, and addr_list.  The aliases
     and addr_list methods return array reference, the rest
     scalars.  The addr method is equivalent to the zeroth ele-
     ment in the addr_list array reference.

     You may also import all the structure fields directly into
     your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import
     tag.  (Note that this still overrides your core functions.)
     Access these fields as variables named with a preceding
     "h_".  Thus, "$host_obj->name()" corresponds to $h_name if
     you import the fields.  Array references are available as
     regular array variables, so for example "@{
     $host_obj->aliases() }" would be simply @h_aliases.

     The gethost() function is a simple front-end that forwards a
     numeric argument to gethostbyaddr() by way of
     Socket::inet_aton, and the rest to gethostbyname().

     To access this functionality without the core overrides,
     pass the "use" an empty import list, and then access func-
     tion functions with their full qualified names. On the other
     hand, the built-ins are still available via the "CORE::"
     pseudo-package.

EXAMPLES
      use Net::hostent;
      use Socket;

      @ARGV = ('netscape.com') unless @ARGV;

      for $host ( @ARGV ) {

	 unless ($h = gethost($host)) {
	     warn "$0: no such host: $host\n";
	     next;
	 }

perl v5.8.8		   2005-02-05				1

Net::hostent(3p)Perl Programmers Reference Guide Net::hostent(3p)

	 printf "\n%s is %s%s\n",
		 $host,
		 lc($h->name) eq lc($host) ? "" : "*really* ",
		 $h->name;

	 print "\taliases are ", join(", ", @{$h->aliases}), "\n"
		     if @{$h->aliases};

	 if ( @{$h->addr_list} > 1 ) {
	     my $i;
	     for $addr ( @{$h->addr_list} ) {
		 printf "\taddr #%d is [%s]\n", $i++, inet_ntoa($addr);
	     }
	 } else {
	     printf "\taddress is [%s]\n", inet_ntoa($h->addr);
	 }

	 if ($h = gethostbyaddr($h->addr)) {
	     if (lc($h->name) ne lc($host)) {
		 printf "\tThat addr reverses to host %s!\n", $h->name;
		 $host = $h->name;
		 redo;
	     }
	 }
      }

NOTE
     While this class is currently implemented using the
     Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you
     shouldn't rely upon this.

AUTHOR
     Tom Christiansen

perl v5.8.8		   2005-02-05				2

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