Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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r0g wrote:
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>Not the visitors IP address, or rdns, indeed they seem to be getting in
>the way of my googling for the answer despite qualifying my searches
>with -reverse and -remote_addr
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>No, what I need is a good old fashioned DNS lookup.
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>e.g. $ip = dns('www.poo.com');
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>I know I could just pop a datagram off to port 53 and parse the result
>but I feel sure php must provide a built-in for this fairly fundamental
>task and that I'm just being lame at finding it.
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>Thanks,
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>Roger.
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Maybe dns_get_record()?
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Thanks Jerry,
It turns out dns_get_record is kind of overkill for what I need though.
It returns the domains entire DNS record and it doesn't work on Windows,
Mac , BSD or PHP4 however - it did lead me to stumble upon the function
gethostbyname() which does exactly what I am after :0) so thanks v.much!
Surprise surprise it turns out that's what they call it in C too! Doh!
Roger.
