Fred Glenn
Fred Glenn

Reputation: 29

whois lookups on the IP addresses

$ host 64.34.119.12 12.119.34.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer stackoverflow.com.

How is this Carried out in php? I am planning to do lookup for searching Google's ip. How do i do implement this?

Like in above example it is stalkoverflow.com

I want to determine their netblock and do strstr on their netblock for "google"

if it is matched, it will , echo "Yeah , its google"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2956

Answers (1)

Tom Hallam
Tom Hallam

Reputation: 1950

Your looking for gethostbyaddr(string ip_address), see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.gethostbyaddr.php

Example:

<?php
$hostname = gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

echo $hostname;
?>

Upvotes: 3

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