Name

gethostbyname

Synopsis

gethostbyname name
                  

Retrieves the address (and other names) of a network hostname. The return value in list context is:

($name, $aliases, $addrtype, $length, @addrs)

in which @addrs is a list of raw addresses. In scalar context, gethostbyname returns only the host address.

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