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

8.156. Net::netent

Returns information for a network. Overrides the core getnetbyname and getnetbyaddr functions with object-oriented versions that return Net::netent objects. The objects have methods that return the fields of the same name from the netent structure in netdb.h:

Field	Description
`addrtype`	Net address type
`aliases`	Array of aliases
`name`	Name of net
`net`	Network number

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 n_ to the field name:

$net_obj->name( )
$n_name

Net::netent exports the following.

getnet

getnet (net)

Frontend for getnetbyaddr and getnetbyname. If net is numeric, calls getnetbyaddr; otherwise, calls getnetbyname.

getnetbyaddr

getnetbyaddr (addr, addrtype)

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

getnetbyname

getnetbyname (netname)

Returns information about the net with name netname.