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gethostent

gethostent

Retrieves the next entry from your system's network hosts file (usually /etc/hosts on Unix). The return value from gethostent is:

($name, $aliases, $addrtype, $length, @addrs)
where @addrs is a list of raw addresses. Scripts that use this function should not be considered portable.