Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

What is the proper way to determine a host's fqdn(fully qualified domain name)? Is it possible to only use system calls in doing so?(ie gethostbyaadr, gethostbyname). I want the host to resolve its fqdn for me through its resolving mech. instead of having to query name services myself from the script. Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: damn frustrating FQDN problem
by greenFox (Vicar) on Mar 08, 2002 at 05:06 UTC
    One solution-
    use Net::Domain 
        use Net::Domain qw(hostfqdn);
    my $fqdn = hostfqdn ();

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    hostfqdn () - Identify and return the FQDN of the current host.

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