note 69205 deleted from function.gethostbyname by bjori

Note Submitter: zmorris at zsculpt dot com Reason: bad code ---- If you need something like getifaddrs() or gethostid() to get the machine's main IP address, you can try $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] but that often returns 127.0.0.1. This happens a lot if you are just testing at home on a vanilla machine. Instead, try this: gethostbyname( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] ) It will usually return the correct IP address, something like 192.168.0.50 if you are on LAN. I have only tested machines behind NAT, but it should work on a machine connected directly to the internet. Perhaps check if $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] is 127.0.0.1 and if so, fall back to the above method.