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getpeername SOCKET

Returns the packed sockaddr address of the other end of the SOCKET connection.

use Socket; my $hersockaddr = getpeername($sock); my ($port, $iaddr) = sockaddr_in($hersockaddr); my $herhostname = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET); my $herstraddr = inet_ntoa($iaddr);