Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug #1191: nslookup broke in fsockopen on old systems From: sas <email protected>
Date: 03/01/99

On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:58:43AM -0000, timothy <email protected> wrote:
> From: timothy <email protected>
> Operating system: linux 2.0.33
> PHP version: 3.0 Latest CVS (01/03/1999)
> PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function
> Bug description: nslookup broke in fsockopen on old systems
>
> Don't know if this has been fixed yet because this is actually cvs as of a
> couple of nights ago, but this was not a problem in php 3.0.6.
>
> If you run fsockopen on an old slackware linux, the nslookup doesn't work,
> but it will do the lookup if the name is in the hosts file. This seems to
> me like several programs lately have had this problem in that redhat seems
> to return dns differently than slackware. Maybe other byte order??? This
> does not cause a problem on redhat 5.2 system.
>
> Anyways thought you guys might wanna know. If anyone out there has been
> running my cybercash stuff and it has been sending weird error stuff back,
> this is the reason. New versions of the code call this "unable to contact
> credit processor"

Do you have any code to demonstrate that effect? There were a couple of
changes in this area which may or may not be the cause of your problem. 

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