Re: Problems using gethostbyname() to resolve *.net.au

"Dan Anderson" <dan@mathjunkies.com> wrote in message news:1067899097.4493.81.camel@hades... > > the firewall is configured to block pings from outside - security reasons - so > > called stealth mode > > No, you are wrong. If you're going to ask for help, you should take it in whatever form it comes. Perhaps he wasn't answering your primary question, but just stating how it is possible to not have a ping request returned by a valid address. In which case he is quite right. gethostbyname($hostname) correctly resolves my > servers, and I have disabled pings for security reasons. > gethostbyname($hostname) has nothing to do with pings as a matter of > fact. It performs a whois lookup and returns the ip address of > $hostname. > > -Dan