Posted by "Hans J.J. Prins" on 06/07/05 15:51

Hello,

I seem to be having a little bit of trouble with executing a nslookup via
PHP's passthr() function.

This:
passthru("nslookup -query=ns testing12345.nl", $returnVar);

Returns:
"Server: ns1.activedomain.nl
Address: 217.148.161.5
Aliases: 5.161.148.217.in-addr.arpa

0"

However, when I execute the nslookup command directly from my SSH client, I
get this result (minus the ---):
---
Server: ns1.activedomain.nl
Address: 217.148.161.5
Aliases: 5.161.148.217.in-addr.arpa

*** ns1.activedomain.nl can't find testing12345.nl: Non-existent host/domain
---

For some reason passthru does not pass back the last line. And that is
exactly the line that I need! I also tried exec(), system() and shell_exec()
But PHP does not give me that last line.

I should mention that I'm on a freeBSD system with Apache 1.3.32 and PHP
4.3.10

Can anyone help me out on this?

Thanks in advance.

Hans J.J. Prins

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