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

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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

Versions up to 2.21 Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. Changes in Version 2.22 onwards Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Steve Hay. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.