#47035 [Com]: dns_get_record returns a garbage byte at the end of a TXT record

ID: 47035 Comment by: valli at icsurselva dot ch Reported By: valli at icsurselva dot ch Status: Open Bug Type: Network related Operating System: gentoo PHP Version: 5.2.8 New Comment: Here's my current workaround: $rt = @dns_get_record($lookuphost, DNS_ANY); // workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47035 if (substr(PHP_VERSION,0,strpos(PHP_VERSION, '-')) == '5.2.8') { for($i = 0, $rts = sizeof($rt); $i < $rts; ++$i) { if ($rt[$i]['type'] == 'TXT') { // remove last byte $rt[$i]['txt'] = substr($rt[$i]['txt'], 0, -1); } } } Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-01-08 09:07:24] valli at icsurselva dot ch Description: ------------ The last byte of a TXT record returned by dns_get_record is garbage. Reproduce code: --------------- $rt = dns_get_record('82.19.186.195.countries.blackholes.us', DNS_TXT); $txt = $rt[0]['txt']; print $txt." (".strlen($txt).")\n"; foreach(str_split($txt) as $char) { print "$char\t".ord($char)."\n"; } Expected result: ---------------- ch (2) c 99 h 104 Actual result: -------------- ch (3) c 99 h 104 128 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47035&edit=1