June 2002
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gethostbyname
gethostbyname name
Retrieves the address (and other names) of a network hostname. The return value in list context is:
($name, $aliases, $addrtype, $length, @addrs)
in which @addrs is a list
of raw addresses. In scalar context, gethostbyname returns only the host
address.