in reply to how do I get a website visitor's host address

this isn't Perl related, is it?
But anyway, try digging into the host name lookup :)
dig xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[download]
and there are more possible ways.

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