Re: Re: Re: gethostbyname not working

This is what I did at first, that was the problem (if you look at my original post). what's the difference?

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Re: Re: Re: Re: gethostbyname not working by Anonymous Monk on Mar 27, 2001 at 04:35 UTC
You weren't unpacking the address.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: gethostbyname not working by Clownburner (Monk) on Mar 27, 2001 at 20:35 UTC
You still need to unpack the results. A complete example would be: `my $hostname = 'yahoo.com'; my $addr = gethostbyname($hostname); my ($a,$b,$c,$d) = unpack('C4',$addr); print "$a.$b.$c.$d\n";` [download] Signature void where prohibited by law.	[reply] [d/l]