NAME

Meta::Utils::Net::Hostname - library to handle net host names.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Hostname.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.23

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::Net::Hostname qw();
        my($name)=Meta::Utils::Net::Hostname::host();

DESCRIPTION

This module supplies host names on demand. A fully qualified name is 10$ per piece (3$ more for each DNS lookup). A short name is 5.99$ with 1$ off if its in the same local network and no firewall is in the middle.

FUNCTIONS

        full()
        part()
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

full()

This functions returns the full name of the current host (full hostname). This function receives nothing.

part()

This function return the short name of the current host (just the machine name). This function receives nothing.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV initial code brought in
        0.01 MV make quality checks on perl code
        0.02 MV more perl checks
        0.03 MV check that all uses have qw
        0.04 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
        0.05 MV perl code quality
        0.06 MV more perl quality
        0.07 MV more perl quality
        0.08 MV perl documentation
        0.09 MV more perl quality
        0.10 MV more perl code quality
        0.11 MV revision change
        0.12 MV languages.pl test online
        0.13 MV perl packaging
        0.14 MV md5 project
        0.15 MV database
        0.16 MV perl module versions in files
        0.17 MV movies and small fixes
        0.18 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.19 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.20 MV website construction
        0.21 MV web site automation
        0.22 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.23 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Sys::Hostname(3), strict(3)

TODO

-add DNS services (translate ip into hostname and vice versa). (or should this be in another module ?).