NAME Sys::HostIP - Try extra hard to get IP address related info VERSION version 1.95 SYNOPSIS use Sys::HostIP; my $hostip = Sys::HostIP->new; my $ips = $hostip->ips; my $interfaces = $hostip->interfaces; DESCRIPTION Sys::HostIP does what it can to determine the ip address of your machine. All 3 methods work fine on every system that I've been able to test on. (Irix, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Linux, OSX, Win32, Cygwin). It does this by parsing ifconfig(8) (ipconfig on Win32/Cygwin) output. It has an object oriented interface and a functional one for compatibility with older versions. ATTRIBUTES ifconfig my $hostip = Sys::HostIP->new( ifconfig => '/path/to/your/ifconfig' ); You can set the location of ifconfig with this attribute if the code doesn't know where your ifconfig lives. If you use the object oriented interface, this value is cached. if_info The interface information. This is either created on new, or you can create it yourself at initialize. # get the cached if_info my $if_info = $hostip->if_info; # create custom one at initialize my $hostip = Sys::HostIP->new( if_info => {...} ); METHODS ip my $ip = $hostip->ip; Returns a scalar containing a best guess of your host machine's IP address. On *nix (Unix, BSD, GNU/Linux, OSX, etc.) systems, it will return the loopback interface (127.0.0.1) if it can't find anything else. ips my $all_ips = $hostip->ips; foreach my $ip ( @{$all_ips} ) { print "IP: $ip\n"; } Returns an array ref containing all the IP addresses of your machine. interfaces my $interfaces = $hostip->interfaces; foreach my $interface ( keys %{$interfaces} ) { my $ip = $interfaces->{$interface}; print "$interface => $ip"\n"; } Returns a hash ref containing all pairs of interfaces and their corresponding IP addresses Sys::HostIP could find on your machine. EXPORT Nothing by default! To export something explicitly, use the syntax: Nothing. use HostIP qw/ip ips interfaces/; # that will get you those three subroutines, for example All of these subroutines will match the object oriented interface methods. * ip my $ip = ip(); * ips my $ips = ips(); * interfaces my $interfaces = interfaces(); HISTORY Originally written by Jonathan Schatz . Currently maintained by Sawyer X . TODO I haven't tested the win32 code with dialup or wireless connections. Machines with output in different languages (German, for example) fail. SEE ALSO * ifconfig(8) * ipconfig AUTHORS * Sawyer X * Jonathan Schatz COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Sawyer X. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.