Posted by John Nichel on 06/07/05 17:33

Hans J.J. Prins wrote:
> 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?

What do you get with shell_exec("nslookup -query=ns testing12345.nl")

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