So what happens when you implement a dead simple test case like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# get host by name exploration

# get me is the test hostname I set up to try this out it has 35 addre
+sses assigned to it.
 ($name,$aliases,$addrtype,$length,@addrs) = gethostbyname "getme.patc
+h.com";

# print "$name $aliases $addrtype $length\n";
 foreach (@addrs) {
        ($a,$b,$c,$d) = unpack("C4",$_);
        print "$a.$b.$c.$d\n";
 }
# yep, most of the above is cut and paste from perlfunc manpage
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