Perl in a Nutshell

Net::hostent

Overrides the core gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr functions with object-oriented versions that return Net::hostent objects. The objects have methods that return the fields of the same name from the hostent structure in netdb.h:

Field	Description
addr	Address of host, for backwards compatibility
addr_list	List of addresses returned from name server
addrtype	Host address type
aliases	List of aliases
length	Length of address
name	Name of host

You can access the structure fields either with the methods or by importing the fields into your namespace with the :FIELDS import tag and then accessing them by prepending h_ to the field name:

$host_obj->name()
$h_name

Net::hostent exports the following: