I want to get the system IP address without using outside applications. Right now my code looks like this:

$ip=`host $hostname`;
$ip =~ s/$hostname has address //;
chomp $ip;

I would prefer to avoid using "host". I found something called "IP::Authority" and another thing called "Net::Address::IPv4::Local" both looked as though they could do what I wanted, however both caused my script to make errors about not being able to locate it (by the way what are those things with the colins called, tools, modules, something else?). Is there some standard pseudo-universal way of getting an IP address with perl?

Thanks for any help,
Michael

In reply to Getting the system ip address by paranoid times

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