note 55932 added to function.gethostbyname

I was using file_get_contents on a set of URLs. Some of them URLs were invalid (the structure of it was ok but the DNS hosts couldn't resolve them) and I kept getting an annoying warning. I wanted to check the DNS somehow but existing check dns function in php doesn't have one for windows and the one a person supplied there does not work 100% of the time. Instead use this function to try to resolve a host. This won't throw any warnings, you just need to check the output. You'll get the same warnings with fopen and fsockopen. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostbyname.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+55932 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55932&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55932&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55932&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55932&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55932&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55932&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+55932&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php