[PHP-DEV] gethostbyname vs. dig

[Eric Coleman]

Don't mean to piss anyone off or ask a question that doesn't belong here but here it goes:

dig domain.com A +short

Just curious as to why this is.

Eric

I wrote a script to check that domains resolve to our ip's. I noticed, that using gethostbyaddr() is significantly slower than using

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