Unable to use fopen to read a URL - DNS Problem?

This is a repost. To summarise: My installtion of PHP is unable to resolve names. I can't use fopen

              to open a URL which uses a name, but if I manually calculate the IP
              address, I can read in the page OK. ( see example below ).

I need some tips on where to start looking to solve this problem. If it helps, my config options when I built PHP were: --with-gd=/usr/local/src/gd-1.8.4/ --enable-gd-imgstrttf --with-ttf=/usr/local/freetype/ --enable-calendar --disable-short-tags --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/src/jpeg-6b/ --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs and I am running PHP 4.0.4pl1 under Debian "Potato" Linux and Apache 1.3 Regs Brian White At 16:28 14/08/2001 +1000, Brian White wrote:

The following code: $url = "http://www.php.net/"; print ( implode( "", file( $url ) )); causes my browser to sit and twiddle it's thumbs for ages and then produce:

    Warning: file("http://www.php.net/") - Bad file descriptor in myfile.php on line 33

    Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in myfile.php on line 33

If, however, I explictly use the IP address:

    $url = "http://208.247.106.187/";
    print ( implode( "", file( $url ) ));

it will successfully dump a copy of the php front page. This says to me that PHP can't resolve names. It is not a problem with the linux box it's running on, given that I ran "ping www.php.net" on that particular box to find the IP address. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to make it work? Regs Brian White ------------------------- Brian White Step Two Designs Pty Ltd - SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy Phone: +612-93197901 Web: http://www.steptwo.com.au/ Email: bwhite@steptwo.com.au -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

------------------------- Brian White Step Two Designs Pty Ltd - SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy Phone: +612-93197901 Web: http://www.steptwo.com.au/ Email: bwhite@steptwo.com.au