Melb.PM to see Lord of the Nerdlab

[Daniel Walmsley]

Foo has a Win98 box with Cygwin - that has Perl. Also, it's trivial to
download and install ActiveState perl. They have a 5.8 distro now too.

I like the plan, btw :-)

Cheers,
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Penrose [mailto:scottp at dd.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 8 January 2003 11:53 AM
To: Gustaf Bjorksten
Cc: Jens Porup; Melbourne Perl Mongers
Subject: Re: Melb.PM to see Lord of the Nerdlab

>
> i would still like to have a go at scott's Hostname::Long thing, so my
> proposal is:
>
> 1800hrs turn up @ Nerdlab
> 1800-2000hrs work on Hostname::Long on various platforms*
> 2000-2130hrs eat @ some place in chinatown
> 2130-2200hrs head down to the nova in carlton
> 2200-????hrs see spirited away

Definitely has my vote :-)

> we could do Hostname::Long on the following platforms for sure:
>
> OS		Hardware
> --		--------
> IRIX		SGI Indy
> Solaris		Sun Ultra 5
> HP-UX		HP9000 D-Class
>
> and with a bit of effort (and people who know what they are doing?) we
> may also be able to do these:
>
> OpenVMS		DEC VAX 3100	(needs OS install from cdrom)
> AIX		IBM RS6000 F50	(move from myi to lab, get on network)
> FreeBSD		intel box	(needs OS install from cdrom)

I also have my Mac OS X and it is already tested under Linux - so we 
are close to a full house.
Anyone got a Windows box running Perl ?

> Scott, can you describe what exactly needs to be done to get
> Hostname::Long working of the different platforms? Can you give us
some
> code examples to prime us? :)

Hostname::Long (one day I hope to have this integrated back into 
Hostname and just be part of perl core, but for now it has a separate 
name) is a module to get the fully qualified domain of the host you are 
on.

Just like Hostname which goes through a number of methods to find out 
the current hostname of your machine, Hostname::Long does similar 
methods to get the full hostname of your machine.

There is no standard for getting FQDN which is the reason for walking 
through so many methods.

Scott
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