| Qore Programming Language Reference Manual 0.9.14

Library Functions

Library functions

# Host Information Hash

Key | Type | Description
`name` | string | The official fully-qualified name of the host
`aliases` | list of string | Any hostname aliases for the host
`typename` | string | The type of network address (either `"ipv4"` or `"ipv6"`)
`type` | int | One of the Network Address Family Constants (either Qore::AF_INET or Qore::AF_INET6) corresponding to the type of network addresses given
`len` | int | The length of the addresses in bytes when represented in binary form
`addresses` | list of string | All addresses corresponding to the host; the list should have at least 1 element

# Address Information Hash

Key | Type | Description
`address` | string | A valid address of the host, for example: `"::1"`.
`address_desc` | string | A descriptive string of the address containing the address family, for example: `"ipv6[::1]"`
`family` | int | The network address family; see Network Address Family Constants.
`familystr` | string | A descriptive string for the network address family, for example: `"ipv6"`.
`addrlen` | int | The length of the internal network address data structure (not normally needed in Qore but provided anyway)
[`port`] | int | The port number corresponding to the service (if applicable)