Well, perl has the gethostby* functions, and in your case, you need gethostbyaddr(). From the perldoc page:

For the gethost*() functions, if the "h_errno" variable is sup-ported in C, it will be returned to you via $? if the function call fails. The @addrs value returned by a successful call is a list of the raw addresses returned by the corresponding sys- tem library call. In the Internet domain, each address is four bytes long and you can unpack it by saying something like:  ($a,$b,$c,$d) = unpack('C4',$addr[0]);

The Socket library makes this slightly easier: 
use Socket;
$iaddr = inet_aton("127.1"); # or whatever address
$name  = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET);
# or going the other way
$straddr = inet_ntoa($iaddr);

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This should get you going in the right direction.
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In reply to Re: Suppress output from nslookup by Necos
in thread Suppress output from nslookup by jorain

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