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:

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 (net) 

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

getnetbyaddr (addr, addrtype) 

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

getnetbyname (netname) 

Returns information about the net with name netname.