>> The admin asked me what command I use in order to get the name 'localhost.testdrive.hp.com'. How does MP2 get this? > >Something like the following: > >use Socket; >my $localhost_addr = pack('C4', 127, 0, 0, 1); >my $name = gethostbyaddr($localhost_addr, Socket::AF_INET()) || 'localhost'; >my $iaddr = (gethostbyname($name))[-1]; >unless (defined $iaddr) { > die "Can't resolve host: '$name' (check /etc/hosts)"; >} >$remote_addr ||= Socket::inet_ntoa($iaddr); >print $remote_addr; > >prints 127.0.0.1 on my machine. > >--
They ask me this: :)
When I show this to one of the engineers here we are confused as to what information or what you are trying to do with these commands. Can you please explain what you are trying to do?
It tries to resolve 127.0.0.1.
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