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Net::Domain (3)

Name

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

Synopsis

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

Description

Perl Programmers Reference Guide                                Net::Domain(3)



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
       Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Graham Barr.  All rights reserved.

       Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Steve Hay.  All rights reserved.

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.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE     |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Availability   | runtime/perl-532      |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Stability      | Pass-through volatile |
       +---------------+-----------------------+

NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.perl.org/.



perl v5.32.0                      2020-06-14                    Net::Domain(3)