Reference: gethostent
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:35:43Z

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| Chapter 5 Function Reference |

## gethostent

    gethostent

Retrieves the next entry from your system's network hosts file (usually /etc/hosts on Unix). The return value from `gethostent` is:

>     ($name, $aliases, $addrtype, $length, @addrs)

where `@addrs` is a list of raw addresses. Scripts that use this function should not be considered portable.

Reference: gethostbyname |  | Reference: getlogin