Net::Domain

CONTENTS

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT
• LICENCE

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 <[email protected]>.

Adapted from Sys::Hostname by David Sundstrom <[email protected]>.

Steve Hay <[email protected]> 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.