Net::Domain

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3perl)
Updated: 2019-04-20
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NAME

Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name and domain

SYNOPSIS

    use Net::Domain qw(hostname hostfqdn hostdomain domainname);

DESCRIPTION

Using various methods attempt to find the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the current host. From this determine the host-name and the host-domain.

Each of the functions will return undef if the FQDN cannot be determined.

hostfqdn (): Identify and return the FQDN of the current host.
domainname (): An alias for hostfqdn ().
hostname (): Returns the smallest part of the FQDN which can be used to identify the host.
hostdomain (): Returns the remainder of the FQDN after the hostname has been removed.

AUTHOR

Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>.

Adapted from Sys::Hostname by David Sundstrom <sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com>.

Steve Hay <shay@cpan.org> is now maintaining libnet as of version 1.22_02.

COPYRIGHT

LICENCE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e. under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the LICENCE file.