note 78965 added to function.gethostbyname

In response to Peter <toomuchphp-phpman at yahoo dot com> $myIP = gethostbyname(trim(hostname)); In my situation this did not work. My server is sitting behind a NAT router, so it's IP address was 192.168.1.10. So when I called your method, it returned 192.168.1.10, and never actually did the lookup. To resolve this, I wrote this little function: <?php function look_me_up() { $records = dns_get_record( trim(hostname --fqdn) ); foreach($records as $record) { if ($record['type'] == 'A') $ip = $record['ip']; } return $ip; } ?> Also note the use of --fqdn. hostname in my case only returned 'hostname' instead of it's fully qualified domain name hostname.example.com. ---- Server IP: 216.92.131.65 Probable Submitter: 64.93.136.120 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostbyname.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/78965 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78965/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78965/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78965/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78965/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78965/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78965/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78965 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/78965 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php