Re: [MacPerl] Is there a trick to gethostbyname()?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 13.23 -0500 12.28.1998, Michael Brian Bentley wrote:
>Should there be something I need to set in a Mac OS control panel somewhere
>to get this to fly? The machine is configured for TCP/IP and has an IP
>address. The hostname function appears to provide the name of the machine
>indicated in the File Sharing control panel.

The File Sharing control panel has nothing to do with hostnames.

If your machine does not have a name, you cannot get a name for it, and you
cannot get a host by its name, since there is not one.

  #!perl -wl
  my $thishost = 'www.cfcl.com';
  (my $name, undef) = gethostbyname($thishost);
  print $name;

Returns:

  freebie.cfcl.com

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