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=head1 NAME
-perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.16 $, $Date: 1997/04/23 18:12:06 $)
+perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.17 $, $Date: 1997/04/24 22:44:29 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ give you the hostname after which you can find out the IP address
use Socket;
use Sys::Hostname;
my $host = hostname();
- my $addr = inet_ntoa(scalar(gethostbyname($host || 'localhost')));
+ my $addr = inet_ntoa(scalar(gethostbyname($name)) || 'localhost');
Probably the simplest way to learn your DNS domain name is to grok
it out of /etc/resolv.conf, at least under Unix. Of course, this