Re: Domain Name of curent user

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:38:05 +0000, Michael wrote:

> "Carl" <_Nospam_@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:7d7jf.20683$BZ5.9444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Michael wrote:
>>> Does someone have a reliable routine to get the domain name of the
>>> current user of a web page? Something like NSLookup. I have no problem
>>> getting their IP address, but I also want the domaine name.
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Michael
>>
>> how about:
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostbyaddr.php
>>
>> Carl.
>
> It may be just me, but that is the first think I tried and it gave me an IP
> address not a domain name.
> Maybe it's the... "or a string containing the unmodified ip_address on
> failure"... that is getting me.
> -Michael

er you want to do a reverse dns lookup?
Thats fraught with issues.

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