Name
gethostent
Synopsis
gethostent
Retrieves the next entry from your system’s network
hosts file (usually /etc/hosts on Unix). The
return value from gethostent
is:
($name, $aliases, $addrtype, $length, @addrs)
in which @addrs is a list
of raw addresses. Scripts that use this function should not be
considered portable.
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