Perl-o-Philes:
I, an ever slowly advancing Perl newbie have a question with a script I'm trying to build. (I's the third time I've posted- thanks everyone for your help up to now). What I've done so far is this:
Open a Pix logfile and pull all of our addresses out either to an array or a file.
Then, I redirect the content of file/array to the Unix process sort -u to get only one instance of each address.
Then, I am trying to run each IP through Nslookup.pm and return the IP and hostname to a hash to be use to do a search and replace on a copy of the original Pix log file. This will make checking the file much friendlier.
Now, here's the code I'm having trouble with:
 while (<NS>) {
     $a = nslookup (host => "$_", type => "PTR");
          %hosts($_, $a);
}

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Now, building the hash hasn't yet worked. I've tried several way to confirm the hash contents, but they are never there. So, how do I populate the hash with $_ being the key and $a the value? What I'll do next is call s///r against the original copy to search and replace the IPs with hostnames, thusly:
while ( ($ip, $a) = each (%hosts)) {
             foreach $line (@final) {
             s/$hosts{$1}/$hosts{$2}/g;
              print FQDN $_;
              }
      }

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I've never been able to confirm that this is the appropriate method for searching a file based on contents in a hash.
Thanks again for all your Perl wisdom. Monger

In reply to Another NSlookup Question by monger

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