you could try something like: nslookup `hostname` and parsing out the address from it. When I do this command on all of our UNIX machines (HP-UX) it always has the fully qualified hostname in the output. This may depend on the dns servers, but could work for you... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martin Moss Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:54 AM To: Cornish, Merrill; Philip Newton; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Hostname I've been having a look at the problem, Does it help if the machine that I run the script on IS the machine who's fully qualified hostname I'm trying to get. for example, I'd thought about opening a process to ping hostname(), and reading the qualified domain from that. Grepping for the domain name that I want. All addresses will be of the form xxx.xxx.mydomain.com, or xxx.mydomain.com Marty > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Cornish, Merrill > Sent: Friday 10 November 2000 15:24 > To: Martin Moss; Philip Newton; > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Hostname > > > gerhostbyaddr() _can_ return the information you want, but it > really depends > on the name server that answers you. For example, when I wrote a Perl > script to convert the IP addresses in our web server access logs, > most came > back with the full URL. Some were unresolved. And a few had single word > "names" in all upper case which did _not_ sound like machine names. In > fact, I asked what they were on this mailing list, but never got a > satisfactory answer. > > Merrill > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
