getbyhostname()

has anyone had any trouble with warnings about a getbyhostname() call in PHP4 when it can't resolve the hostname? or did I just screw something up?

Just so you know when I tried to setup the senerio you pointed out, and I too got this error using this code.
<--start code
<?
print(gethostbyname("www.somebunkdomain.com"));
?>
<--end code

<--start error
Warning: Unable to resolve www.somebunkdomain.com in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/php/gethost.php on line 3 www.somebunkdomain.com
<--end error

try whis:

<--start code
<?
$host="www.somebunkdomain.com";
print gethostbyname($host);
?>
<--end code

With that code you still get the same error. Shouldn't php just dump back instead of an error, "domain not resolved". Maybe it is a configuration error in my php.ini

Bit of an odd error, not sure its supposed to work that way. Here is a work around though:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">code:</font><HR><pre>
<?
@$host = gethostbyname("www.somebunkdomain.com"));
if ($host == "www.somebunkdomain.com") {
print("Couldn't resolve host.");
}
else {
print("Resolved to: $host");
}
?>
[/code]

@ can be very handy to suppress errors

N.