Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/17/36 11:53

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> yawnmoth wrote:
>
>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>
>>> yawnmoth wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a way one could determin which DNS server a PHP installation
>>>> was using to do such things as gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr?
>>>>
>>>> Ideally, the solution would be cross-platform (eg. work on Windows and
>>>> Linux) and work in safe mode, but solutions that aren't are of some
>>>> interest to me, as well :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> PHP will use whichever one the server itself is using.
>>
>>
>> There wouldn't happen to be a way for PHP to know what the server is
>> using, would there be?
>>
>
> Nope, that's up to the OS, not a programming language (PHP or any other
> one).
>

I should add - there are calls to the OS to determine which DNS is being
used, but nothing in PHP, AFAIK. You probably could do something like
execute nslookup and parse the return value, but what good would it do?

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