Perl script running on the client machine

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Re: Perl script running on the client machine by Callum (Chaplain) on Dec 03, 2002 at 15:11 UTC
The function gethostbyname will return the address of a given hostname. edit1 -- fixed error edit2 -- unfixed error :)	[reply]
Re: Perl script running on the client machine by krujos (Curate) on Dec 03, 2002 at 15:47 UTC
Callum's suggestion is excellent, and unless you have a good reason not to I suggest you do that rather than what I will advise. You could look into using ssh, rsh, or telnet and then run your script from that session. I suggest checking out Net::Telnet, Net::SSH and Net::Rsh. Good Luck Josh	[reply]
Re: Perl script running on the client machine by mce (Curate) on Dec 03, 2002 at 15:51 UTC
Hi, Do I understand this correct? You want to connect to a machine over tcpip to print its ipaddress? Isn't this a chicken-and-egg situation? Or do you want to query it's ip configuration of all the adapters/interfaces in the machine I that case you can use the default MIB-II of snmp. --------------------------- Dr. Mark Ceulemans Senior Consultant IT Masters, Belgium	[reply]
Re: Perl script running on the client machine by MZSanford (Curate) on Dec 03, 2002 at 17:47 UTC
If you have the name of a host, then you should be able to use `gethostbyname()` to get the IP from anywhere. If this is being used in a CGI context to track any sort of session data, check Super Search, as there have been comments before about IP's comming out of AOL and firewalls. from the frivolous to the serious	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl script running on the client machine by iburrell (Chaplain) on Dec 04, 2002 at 02:04 UTC
What problem are you trying to solve? Depending on what problem you want to solve there are different solutions. You need to consider that with masquerading and internal names, the machine may not know its external IP address and FQDN. The name or IP address its gives may not be accessible to the world. For example, "hostname" on my home machine gives "kraken". Not a domain name that could be looked up by anyone external. A local lookup or querying the interfaces would give "192.168.1.10". The machine has no clue what someone on the other side of the masquerading firewall would get; the IP address changes with DHCP leases.	[reply]
Re: Perl script running on the client machine by Zitoune (Beadle) on Dec 03, 2002 at 15:15 UTC
it's a part of a package ??	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl script running on the client machine by Callum (Chaplain) on Dec 03, 2002 at 15:51 UTC
core `perlfunc -f gethostbyname`	[reply] [d/l]


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