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Bug #25342 function gethostbynamel. This is returning ip addresses for invalid domains
Submitted: 2003-09-01 07:09 UTC Modified: 2003-09-01 17:20 UTC
From: getsuryya at rediffmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Network Functions
PHP Version: 4.3.2 OS: LINUX
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-09-01 07:09 UTC] getsuryya at rediffmail dot com
Description:
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The bug is in the function gethostbynamel. When a domain name is passed to it as an argument then it should return the associated ip addresses of this domain in an array, this is working properly in version 4.3.1.

But in version 4.3.2 the bugs are as under.
1)It is returning an ip for a domain name which is not valid, where as it should have returned false in case of non valid domain name.
2)It is only returning a single ip associated with the domain, not all the ip addresses.



Reproduce code:
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#CODE FOR CASE 1
if($hosts = gethostbynamel('com')){	
	print_r($hosts);
}else{
	print "Invalid domain";
}

#CODE FOR CASE 2
if($hosts = gethostbynamel('yahoo.com')){
	print_r($hosts);
}else{
	print "Invalid domain";



Expected result:
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#EXPECTED RESULT FOR CASE 1
Invalid domain

#EXPECTED  RESULT FOR CASE 2
Array ( [0] => 216.109.118.76 [1] => 216.109.118.77 [2] => 216.109.118.78 [3] => 216.109.118.65 [4] => 216.109.118.69 [5] => 216.109.118.71 [6] => 216.109.118.72 [7] => 216.109.118.74 ) 


Actual result:
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#ACTUAL RESULT FOR CASE 1
Array ( [0] => 206.16.0.134 ) 

#ACTUAL RESULT FOR CASE 2
Array ( [0] => 66.218.71.198 )

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 [2003-09-01 17:20 UTC] pollita@php.net
The actual result you reported for case #2 is the expected result according to the yahoo.com name servers.

I cannot, however, reproduce the bug you reported for case #1.  The most common cause for receiving errorneous IPs in such a case is having a search domain configured for your system's resolver library.

i.e.: looking up 'com' may be attempting to resolve 'com.yourdomain.com' which may indeed be valid if yourdomain.com is configured with a wildcard.  Check /etc/resolv.conf


 [2013-08-20 15:47 UTC] daverandom@php.net
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Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=331178
Log: As DEFAULT is a reserved words, the constant for default strength is Collator::DEFAULT_STRENGTH, not Collator::DEFAULT.

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