[Techtalk] name resolution problem with PHP

[Katie Bechtold]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:16:41AM -0500, Meredth L. Patterson wrote:
> Basically, if you're on a DHCP lease which gets renewed 
> and your DNS server changes, PHP can get confused even though 
> command-line name resolution works okay.

This box isn't on a DHCP lease, so I'm guessing that's a dead end.

> FWIW, I tested out your script on my site, using both 
> www.livejournal.com and 66.150.15.150 as the root URL; it worked fine. 
> Does your script work if you use the IP address?

*Now* it's magically working fine, and I haven't changed a thing.
This same thing happened yesterday, where PHP wasn't able to resolve
names for a significant period of time, and then it's suddenly able
to for a while.

When the name resolution wasn't working, the script did work when I
replaced the server name with its IP address.

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