I am wanting to get my IP and Hostname via PERL w/o knowing either the ip or the hostname. Is there a way to do this? It seems that this is the closest to what i want but its requiring know info and also it doesnt print out anything: #!perl use Socket; $ip=gethostbyname 'hostname'; print "My IP Address is: $ip";

The ip of the computer you're running the script on right? Not have a server tell you your ip? To get the ip/hostname of the server running the script...use... #!/usr/bin/perl $ip="$ENV{'SERVER_ADDR'}"; $hostname="$ENV{'SERVER_NAME'}"; print "My IP Address is: $ip\n"; print "My Hostname is: $hostname"; ...or more directly... #!/usr/bin/perl print "My IP Address is: $ENV{'SERVER_ADDR'}\n"; print "My Hostname is: $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'}\n"; I just noticed you said your OS is Win2K...you don't need the 1st line in the file... #!/usr/bin/perl ...I'm not sure if it'll mess anything up by being there on Win2K but if it don't give an error leave it unless you'll never use it on a unix then delete.