Re: What's wrong with this system's configuration?

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>  >> The admin asked me what command I use in order to get the name 'localhost.testdrive.hp.com'. How does MP2 get this?
>  >
>  >Something like the following:
>  >
>  >use Socket;
>  >my $localhost_addr = pack('C4', 127, 0, 0, 1);
>  >my $name = gethostbyaddr($localhost_addr, Socket::AF_INET()) || 'localhost';
>  >my $iaddr = (gethostbyname($name))[-1];
>  >unless (defined $iaddr) {
>  >         die "Can't resolve host: '$name' (check /etc/hosts)";
>  >}
>  >$remote_addr ||= Socket::inet_ntoa($iaddr);
>  >print $remote_addr;
>  >
>  >prints 127.0.0.1 on my machine.
>  >
>  >--
> 
> They ask me this: :)
> 
> When I show this to one of the engineers here we are confused
> as to what information or what you are trying to do with these
> commands. Can you please explain what you are trying to do?

It tries to resolve 127.0.0.1.

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