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Bug #79558 gethostbyaddr()'s problem with some characters
Submitted: 2020-05-02 18:40 UTC Modified: 2020-12-18 13:43 UTC
From: havijoori at protonmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: *Network Functions
PHP Version: 7.4.5 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2020-05-02 18:40 UTC] havijoori at protonmail dot com 
Description:
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gethostbyaddr function does not work properly if the hostname contains some characters.
For example, gethostbyaddr("146.229.226.10") returns 146.229.226.10 but the correct answer is :

$ dig -x 146.229.226.10 @8.8.8.8 +short
Dr\032Zhang's\032desktop.ds.uah.edu.

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 [2020-05-02 18:47 UTC] bugreports at gmail dot com 
> Dr\032Zhang's\032desktop.ds.uah.edu.

this is pretty nosense - learn about https://www.punycoder.com/ or show the RFC which is *not* some draft allowing such chars as hostname
 [2020-05-27 17:10 UTC] php at mcq8 dot be 
This is not a bug in PHP.
It depends on how your system handles invalid domain names.
On alpine your example resolves to "Dr Zhang's desktop.ds.uah.edu" on debian it returns the ip when it fails to resolve.
You can try and file a bugreport at glibc, but I doubt they will accept requests for domains with invalid chars.
 [2020-12-18 13:43 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2020-12-18 13:43 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Indeed, that would rather be an upstream issue.  FWIW, Windows
also reports "Dr Zhang's desktop.ds.uah.edu".
 
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