Re: Addition to: How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz))
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>>>>> "Brian" == Brian D Foy <[email protected]> writes: Brian> In article <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Brian> wrote: >> > 9.23: How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address? >> > >> > my $addr = inet_ntoa(scalar gethostbyname($host || 'localhost')); >> >> If the host name is not important, that can be simplified to: >> >> my $addr = join(".", unpack C4,((gethostbyname "")[4])); Brian> i've added this to my queue of things to catch up on. i'm on Brian> holiday at the moment, so don't expect anything soon. :) Didn't work when I just tried it (OS X 10.2.3, airport connection). Perhaps it's peculiar to some net setups and not others, or some Unix flavors and not others. In any case, it should be noted that it's not portable. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!