Posted by Toby Inkster on 01/28/07 10:40

Sagari wrote:

> I only wished to say that gethostbyname() doesn't fit all the cases
> and, in general, it makes validation significantly slower.

Please do not top post.

I did mention towards the end, that it actually checks if $domain is a
valid Internet host. Depending on why the OP needs to "validate" the
domain name this may or may not be important.

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