Net::hostent (Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition)

8.155. Net::hostent

Overrides the core gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr functions with object-oriented versions that return Net::hostent objects. The objects have methods that return the fields of the same name from the hostent structure in netdb.h:

Field	Description
`addr`	Address of host, for backward compatibility
`addr_list`	List of addresses returned from name server
`addrtype`	Host address type
`aliases`	List of aliases
`length`	Length of address
`name`	Name of host

You can access the structure fields with the methods or by importing the fields into your namespace with the :FIELDS import tag and accessing them by prepending h_ to the field name:

$host_obj->name( )
$h_name

Net::hostent exports the following.

gethost

gethost (host)

Frontend for gethostbyaddr and gethostbyname. If hostis numeric, calls gethostbyaddr; otherwise, calls gethostbyname.

gethostbyaddr

gethostbyaddr (addr, addrtype)

Returns information about the host with address addr of type addrtype.

gethostbyname

gethostbyname (hostname)

Returns information about the host with name hostname.