Extracted from Pike v7.6 release 93 at 2006-10-04.
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Method System.gethostbyaddr()


Method gethostbyaddr

array(string|array(string)) System.gethostbyaddr(string addr)

Description

Returns an array with information about the specified IP address.

Returns

The returned array contains the same information as that returned by gethostbyname() .

Note

This function only exists on systems that have the gethostbyaddr(2) or similar system call.

See also

gethostbyname()