Net::netent(3p) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Net::netent(3p)NAMENet::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
functions
SYNOPSIS
use Net::netent qw(:FIELDS);
getnetbyname("loopback") or die "bad net";
printf "%s is %08X\n", $n_name, $n_net;
use Net::netent;
$n = getnetbyname("loopback") or die "bad net";
{ # there's gotta be a better way, eh?
@bytes = unpack("C4", pack("N", $n->net));
shift @bytes while @bytes && $bytes[0] == 0;
}
printf "%s is %08X [%d.%d.%d.%d]\n", $n->name, $n->net, @bytes;
DESCRIPTION
This module's default exports override the core getnet-
byname() and getnetbyaddr() functions, replacing them with
versions that return "Net::netent" objects. This object has
methods that return the similarly named structure field name
from the C's netent structure from netdb.h; namely name,
aliases, addrtype, and net. The aliases method returns an
array reference, the rest scalars.
You may also import all the structure fields directly into
your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import
tag. (Note that this still overrides your core functions.)
Access these fields as variables named with a preceding
"n_". Thus, "$net_obj->name()" corresponds to $n_name if
you import the fields. Array references are available as
regular array variables, so for example "@{
$net_obj->aliases() }" would be simply @n_aliases.
The getnet() function is a simple front-end that forwards a
numeric argument to getnetbyaddr(), and the rest to getnet-
byname().
To access this functionality without the core overrides,
pass the "use" an empty import list, and then access func-
tion functions with their full qualified names. On the other
hand, the built-ins are still available via the "CORE::"
pseudo-package.
EXAMPLES
The getnet() functions do this in the Perl core:
sv_setiv(sv, (I32)nent->n_net);
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The gethost() functions do this in the Perl core:
sv_setpvn(sv, hent->h_addr, len);
That means that the address comes back in binary for the
host functions, and as a regular perl integer for the net
ones. This seems a bug, but here's how to deal with it:
use strict;
use Socket;
use Net::netent;
@ARGV = ('loopback') unless @ARGV;
my($n, $net);
for $net ( @ARGV ) {
unless ($n = getnetbyname($net)) {
warn "$0: no such net: $net\n";
next;
}
printf "\n%s is %s%s\n",
$net,
lc($n->name) eq lc($net) ? "" : "*really* ",
$n->name;
print "\taliases are ", join(", ", @{$n->aliases}), "\n"
if @{$n->aliases};
# this is stupid; first, why is this not in binary?
# second, why am i going through these convolutions
# to make it looks right
{
my @a = unpack("C4", pack("N", $n->net));
shift @a while @a && $a[0] == 0;
printf "\taddr is %s [%d.%d.%d.%d]\n", $n->net, @a;
}
if ($n = getnetbyaddr($n->net)) {
if (lc($n->name) ne lc($net)) {
printf "\tThat addr reverses to net %s!\n", $n->name;
$net = $n->name;
redo;
}
}
}
NOTE
While this class is currently implemented using the
Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you
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shouldn't rely upon this.
AUTHOR
Tom Christiansen
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