Domain name to IP address demo

<?php
$addresses = gethostbynamel('example.com') ?: [];

foreach ($addresses as $address) {
    echo htmlspecialchars($address, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '<br>';
}
?>

Domain name

https://www.

Enter the characters shown below

Get DNS details

Related DNS functions

gethostbyname() returns one IPv4 address, while gethostbynamel() returns all IPv4 addresses it finds for the host.

<?php
$ip = gethostbyname('example.com');
echo htmlspecialchars($ip, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
?>

Mail exchanger records can be collected with getmxrr():

<?php
$mxHosts = [];
if (getmxrr('example.com', $mxHosts)) {
    foreach ($mxHosts as $host) {
        echo htmlspecialchars($host, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '<br>';
    }
}
?>

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