#43687 [Com]: gethostbyname() can't return a valid ip address.

ID: 43687 Comment by: bole dot chen at gmail dot com Reported By: php at xuefeng dot org Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Network related Operating System: Redhat 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP i68 PHP Version: 5.2.5 New Comment: I have this problem on RHEL5 too. My sloved is "chmod 644 /etc/hosts" Simple,but useful for me. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-05 01:00:01] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-01-28 23:54:41] tony2001@php.net Apparently, the second DNS request fails. You can check it out with strace/tcpdump. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-12-30 18:31:58] php at xuefeng dot org defined via DNS entry . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-12-30 16:24:38] iliaa@php.net Is the xxx.xxx.com domain defined via DNS entry or via a local hosts file? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-12-27 09:29:26] php at xuefeng dot org Description: ------------ When trying to resolv the ip address of a hostname given in /etc/hosts, it's works fine, but does not work when trying to resolv via the DNS server though. btw: those test code works fine with php 5.2.1 Reproduce code: --------------- var_dump(dns_get_record("xxx.xxx.com")); var_dump(fsockopen("xxx.xxx.com", 80, $error, $errstr)); Expected result: ---------------- array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["host"]=> string(12) "xxx.xxx.com" ["type"]=> string(1) "A" ["ip"]=> string(13) "192.168.200.6" ["class"]=> string(2) "IN" ["ttl"]=> int(86400) } } resource(20) of type (stream) Actual result: -------------- array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["host"]=> string(12) "xxx.xxx.com" ["type"]=> string(1) "A" ["ip"]=> string(13) "192.168.200.6" ["class"]=> string(2) "IN" ["ttl"]=> int(86400) } } <br /> <b>Warning</b>: fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in <b>/opt/wwwroot/qun_inner/modules/club/my_signatures.php</b> on line <b>68</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: unable to connect to xxx.xxx.com:80 (Unknown error) in <b>/opt/wwwroot/qun_inner/modules/club/my_signatures.php</b> on line <b>68</b><br /> bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=43687&edit=1