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On 2005-03-28, Emanuel Strobl scribbled these
curious markings:
> Is there one? Unfortunately I can't write one myself, at least not
> in a reasonable amount of time....

- --cut--
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Socket;
my $host = shift or die "usage: hostshost hostname\n";
my $addr = gethostbyname($host);
die "Cannot resolve host '$host'.\n" unless defined $addr;
my $ip = inet_ntoa($addr);
print "$host has address $ip\n";
- --cut--

Needs some 5.x version of Perl. Works with 5.005_03 as shipped in
FreeBSD 4.x. Also works with more recent perls.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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