#47437 [NEW]: fsockopen doesn't work with DNS names, only IPs

From: ogi at triangle dot bg Operating system: Windows XP Pro SP3 PHP version: 5.2.9RC2 PHP Bug Type: Sockets related Bug description: fsockopen doesn't work with DNS names, only IPs Description: ------------ Any DNS name passed to fsockopen is not recognized. Everything in the system works fine with DNS names - Firefox, nslookup command-line utility, DNS Client service is started. If it matters, PHP is installed as module in Apache 2.2.10. Reproduce code: --------------- var_dump(fsockopen(gethostbyname('localhost'), 80)); var_dump(fsockopen('localhost', 80)); Expected result: ---------------- resource(2) of type (stream) resource(3) of type (stream) Actual result: -------------- resource(2) of type (stream) Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to localhost:80 (A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. ) in C:\Program Files\drupal\i.php on line 4 bool(false) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47437&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47437&r=mysqlcfg