Config::Hosts - Interface to /etc/hosts file
Version 0.01
Config::Hosts - Interface to /etc/hosts file. A tool that manages the hosts list on a machine, is able to query/insert/delete/update the entries by IP or by a hostname, and also maintains the original comments and some sanity checks on IP and hostname values.
use Config::Hosts; my $hosts = Config::Hosts->new(); $hosts->read_hosts(); # reads default /etc/hosts $hosts->query_host($host_or_ip); $hosts->insert_host(ip => $ip, hosts => [qw(host1 host2)]); $hosts->update_host($ip, hosts=> [qw(host1 host3)]); $hosts->delete_host('host3'); $hosts->write_hosts("/tmp/hosts");
The interface is entirely object-oriented. The following methods have been defined:
The constructor. Accepts optional hash with one key only: file - the name of the file as alternative to default /etc/hosts.
Returns the newly blessed object.
internal utility function to check whether the IP given is a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address. Returns 1 or 0, naturally.
Internal utility to determine whether the host name is a valid hostname as required by /etc/hosts manual.
Read the host file into a data structure to later be used by the other methods. Optional argument may be the file to read hosts table from.
Check whether the given argument is an IP, a HOST or neither. Returns 1, -1 or 0 correspondingly.
Queries the read hosts table to find specified argument that may be IP address or host name.
Returns hash containing the relevant entry if found or undef if not.
Inserts a host. Both IP and hostnames must be specified as a hash. Hostname may be a single scalar or arrayref of hostnames.
Deletes an entry in hosts table. The entry is determined either by IP or by hostname, all entries related to this host or IP are wiped out.
Updates an entry in hosts table. Arguments should be of the following format: $self->update_host($ip_or_host, ip => $new_ip, hosts => [ @new_hosts ]);
New hosts' argument may be a single scalar instead of arrayref.
Writes the hosts table either to the default or to a specified (via parameter) file.
Roman M. Parparov, <roman at parparov.com>
<roman at parparov.com>
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-config-hosts at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Config-Hosts. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-config-hosts at rt.cpan.org
CAVEAT: the changes in host table are not committed unless you explicitly write_hosts() them.
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Config::Hosts
You can also look for information at:
RT: CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Config-Hosts
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/Config-Hosts
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Config-Hosts
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Hosts/
Thanks to Vicente Gavara <vicente.gavara at tcomm.es> for providing a fix for editing/deleting routines.
<vicente.gavara at tcomm.es>
Copyright 2011 Roman M. Parparov.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
To install Config::Hosts, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Config::Hosts
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Config::Hosts
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.