drieux wrote: > On Dec 4, 2003, at 8:18 AM, Bob Showalter wrote: > > Thomas Browner wrote: > > > Is there away to find all of the hostname on a lan with > use of perl? > [..] > > You can query DNS to get the hosts in a domain using nslookup, dig, > > host, or similar. For example: > > > > host -l mydomain.com > > > > If you want to talk to the resolver directly from Perl, you can use > > the Net::DNS module. > > first forgive the brief prefatory rant: > > <rant> > Bad BOB! Not Nice Bob! No Cookie! > </rant>
Oy vey! > > since what Bob has done with that 'host -l mydomain.com' > is oblige us to go back and REALLY work out what in > the DNS is a 'host' and what is the bloat in the > DNS that is not actually a Host, not in the sense > that most folks would think of. $ host -ltA mydomain.com (:~) [snip...] > So a part of the unpleasantry, is what exactly > is 'finding hosts on a Lan' really a question about... No argument there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
