[Techtalk] Name Service Lookup Fails Under Wordpress

[Sheila Fenelon]

Kai MacTane wrote:
> 
> I've hacked the class-IXR.php file to include the following inside the
> query() method, just before the fsockopen() call:
> 
> print "allow_url_fopen is: " . ini_get('allow_url_fopen') . "<br>\n<br>\n";
> print "DiG returns:<br>\n<pre>";
> passthru('dig www.dreamwidth.org');
> print "</pre>\n";
> 
> This prints out a very normal-looking DiG response in the error page,
> right before the error message I've described before. Just in case it
> matters, here's the page, including the DiG output (though I suspect
> you'd get identical results from 'dig www.dreamwidth.org' on your own
> machine(s)):
> 
[snip]
> 
> Something went wrong getting the challenge string from host
> www.dreamhost.org - -32300 : transport error - could not open socket: 0
> php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name
> resolution
> 

www.dreamhost.org - where is that coming from?

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