<readme> Is there a way to suppress output? In other words, perl newbie is running through a file doing an nslookup in DOS – performing an nslookup on ip addresses to get the hostname. My sysadmin (at work)does not approve acitive state to be installed on workstation - will only let me use perl.exe w/ perl56.dll, so I can't use perl modules. Would appreciate any help. Code looks like this…</readme> 
 
     @nsl = `nslookup $_`;
     $reso = $nsl[3]; 
     if ($? = 0) {
        $getit = (split (/\s+/, $reso))[1];  # pull hostname only
        print “$_ -> $getit\n”;
        } else {
           print “$_ - could not resolve.\n”;
          }

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<readme> The output looks real good if it successfully resolves ip to hostname, but the problem comes in if it can’t resolve – my output looks crappy – like this… </readme> 
***dc1 can’t find server name for address 9.0.1.2: Non-existent domain
1.2.3.4 -> Hostname1
5.6.7.8 -> Hostname2
9.0.1.2 -> Could not resolve.
3.4.5.6 -> Hostname7
***dc1 can’t find server name for address 7.8.9.0: Non-existent domain
7.8.9.0 -> Could not resolve.

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<readme> Is there a way to suppress all the ***Can’t find server name… crap out of my output and keep the output pretty? It seems pretty simple but I can’t get my hands on it. Thanks. </readme>

In reply to Suppress output from nslookup by jorain

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