Php/docs/function.gethostbynamel
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gethostbynamel
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
gethostbynamel — Get a list of IPv4 addresses corresponding to a given Internet host name
Description
gethostbynamel
( string $hostname
) : array
Returns a list of IPv4 addresses to which the Internet host
specified by hostname
resolves.
Parameters
hostname
- The host name.
Return Values
Returns an array of IPv4 addresses or FALSE
if
hostname
could not be resolved.
Examples
Example #1 gethostbynamel() example
<?php$hosts = gethostbynamel('www.example.com');print_r($hosts);?>
The above example will output:
Array ( [0] => 192.0.34.166 )
See Also
- gethostbyname() - Get the IPv4 address corresponding to a given Internet host name
- gethostbyaddr() - Get the Internet host name corresponding to a given IP address
- checkdnsrr() - Check DNS records corresponding to a given Internet host name or IP address
- getmxrr() - Get MX records corresponding to a given Internet host name
- the
named(8)
manual page