>>>>> "D" == David G Andersen <dga / lcs.mit.edu> writes: D> so you could take the output of gethostbyname and feed it into D> gethostbyaddr (as the example in the Pickaxe book does). But D> this no longer works in 1.8. As it is, one has to take the output, D> unpack the sockaddr output: Dave Thomas has seen this problem and it's now corrected in the CVS version. Guy Decoux