Name
gethostbyname
Synopsis
gethostbyname name
Description
Retrieves the address (and other names) of a network hostname. The return value in list context is:
($name, $aliases, $addrtype, $length, @addrs)
where
@addrs
is a list of raw addresses.
In scalar context, gethostbyname returns only the host address.
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