Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

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.