FreeBSD 6.2+PHP+700 sites = DNS Issues?

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Wed Mar 12 18:58:59 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 12 March 2008 16:17:48 Simon Street wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> 
wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 March 2008 12:12:05 Simon Street wrote:
> >  > I've copied resolv.conf to /usr/local/etc and HostnameLookups is
> >  > already enabled, no joy :( (Have restarted apache also).
> >
> >  Hmm hmmm.
> >  So apache can look up IP's and write hostname into it's log, but php
> > can't resolve anything. If it's got something to do with FDSET, then if
> > it has no traffic at all, the problem should go away. Does it? Not sure
> > if you can test that, but block all incoming traffic for 30 seconds and
> > run your test script, shouldn't be too difficult.
> >
> >  Does this work:
> >  var_dump(gethostbyname("www.example.com"));
> >
> >  Maybe it isn't related to resolving at all - like, are there any
> > disallowed functions in your php configuration?
>
> var_dump.. etc returns string(15) "www.example.com"

which means it didn't resolve.

> disable_functions shows as none in phpinfo!
>
> However I've just noticed in the domain logs that its logging IP's not
> hostnames, I assume this is wrong given "HostnameLookups On" is in a
> conf file that is included by httpd.conf. Is there any way to confirm
> at runtime that this directive is being obeyed?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_info.html

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.


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