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 backwards 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 either with the methods or by importing the fields into your namespace with the :FIELDS import tag and then accessing them by prepending h_ to the field name:
$host_obj->name() $h_name
Net::hostent exports the following: