Re: gethostbyaddr and IPv6

2008/11/21 Glen C <carrerag@hotmail.com>: > Hello, > > Does gethostbyaddr actually work for anyone while looking up an IPv6 > address? I can't seem to get it to work. For example: > > echo gethostbyaddr ( '2001:470:0:64::2' ); > > should return "ipv6.he.net" but instead I get the following error: > > [21-Nov-2008 22:43:37] PHP Warning: gethostbyaddr() > [<a href='function.gethostbyaddr'>function.gethostbyaddr</a>]: > Address is not in a.b.c.d form in C:\www\tests\saved\host.php on line 7 > > Google has not been my friend in this matter... > > Any insight? > Thanks, > Glen Hi Glen, Works for me. IPv6 support was added in 2001. You didn't say what version of PHP you are having this problem with, so it's hard to say why yours doesn't have support for it. Perhaps it was configured with --disable-ipv6 for some reason, or compiled on a system without the necessary libraries installed (which would be somewhat surprising). Torben