Re: dns_get_record() with timeout?

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From	Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid>
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Subject	Re: dns_get_record() with timeout?
Date	Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:23:46 +0000 (UTC)
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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

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dns_get_record() with timeout? Simon <bad@example.com> - 2012-11-16 17:04 +0200
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