Re: Bug #1191: nslookup broke in fsockopen on old systems

On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:58:43AM -0000, timothy@ametro.net wrote: > From: timothy@ametro.net > Operating system: linux 2.0.33 > PHP version: 3.0 Latest CVS (01/03/1999) > PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function > Bug description: nslookup broke in fsockopen on old systems > > Don't know if this has been fixed yet because this is actually cvs as of a > couple of nights ago, but this was not a problem in php 3.0.6. > > If you run fsockopen on an old slackware linux, the nslookup doesn't work, > but it will do the lookup if the name is in the hosts file. This seems to > me like several programs lately have had this problem in that redhat seems > to return dns differently than slackware. Maybe other byte order??? This > does not cause a problem on redhat 5.2 system. > > Anyways thought you guys might wanna know. If anyone out there has been > running my cybercash stuff and it has been sending weird error stuff back, > this is the reason. New versions of the code call this "unable to contact > credit processor" Do you have any code to demonstrate that effect? There were a couple of changes in this area which may or may not be the cause of your problem. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann | Consultant | finger sas@schell.de | for PGP public key -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net