Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.php > #7589

Re: dns_get_record() with timeout?

Show all headers | View raw

On 2012-11-16, Simon <bad@example.com> wrote:
> Would anybody know of a fairly generic way of getting the IP addresses 
> of a site, (ipv4 and ipv6 when available), while protecting myself from 
> timeouts.

You have to write your own function that will build a UDP packet to
query a DNS server, call the socket_set_timeout() function to set a
timeout value, send the UDP packet, and hope that you get a response.

An example of how you can do this is located at php.net:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostbyaddr.php#46869

-- 
Blah blah bleh...
GCS/CM d(-)@>-- s+:- !a C++$ UBL++++$ L+$ W+++$ w M++ Y++ b++

Back to comp.lang.php | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar

Thread

dns_get_record() with timeout? Simon <bad@example.com> - 2012-11-16 17:04 +0200
  Re: dns_get_record() with timeout? Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2012-11-16 15:23 +0000

csiph-web