"John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Dan wrote: > > > > Hey > > Hello, > > > I need a method that resolves Hostmasks into IP's, and IP's into hosts. I > > can do the former, with: > > > > sub resolve { > > return inet_ntoa(scalar gethostbyname("@_")); > ^^^^ > You should be using $_[0] here instead of "@_". What you are doing is > the same as join( $", @_ ). > > > > } > > $data = resolve("host.mask.com"); > > > > However, if I give it an IP address, it will just return nothing, even if > > the IP address is resolvable. Is there as module to do this, or a set of > > scripts? > > It works for me. :-) > > $ perl -le' > use Socket; > sub resolve { inet_ntoa( scalar gethostbyname( $_[0] ) ) } > print resolve( "www.google.com" ); > ' > 216.239.51.101 > $ perl -le' > use Socket; > sub resolve { inet_ntoa( scalar gethostbyname( $_[0] ) ) } > print resolve( "216.239.51.101" ); > ' > 216.239.51.101
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ my point exactly, it resolves hosts to ips, but not vice versa, and i need to know how to reverse resolve. i've had a look at the Net::hostent package that was suggested to me, seems ok, yet to grasp with how it works, but if there's a simpler solution, i'd like to know. > > > > John > -- > use Perl; > program > fulfillment Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
