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)