Check domain name servers with php

Is there a way to check a domains name servers with php? To be more general, we have members submit domain names they want us to host and I want to somehow automatically check if the set the name servers to point to us. Right now it's being done very manually.

The best I found so far is:

$domaincheck = checkdnsrr($HTTP_POST_VARS[domain],"ns"); 

Code (markup):

but that only checks if the domain exists. I'm looking for a way to not only verify that the domain exists, but to verify that the name servers are what we want them to be. Any ideas?

 

I haven't had any use for this function so it's new to me, but I'm sure it will prove useful to you

I dont think i can post links yet so you'll have to copy and paste without the spaces

http ://us. php. net/dns_get_record

 

http://in2.php.net/dns_get_record thats the best function and they have sample codes aswell just implement it in yours

 

Thanks to both of you! How would I get that function to just output the name server that I can store in a variable or database?

 

Took me some time to get this worked out.. It's not pretty but it should get you going in the right direction.. as I said this is my first run in with this function.

<?PHP
$result = dns_get_record("YOURDOMAIN.COM", DNS_ANY, $authns, $addtl);

$count = sizeof($result);
$i=0;
$nameserver = array();
while($i < $count) {
	$temp_array = $result[$i];
	
	if($temp_array['type'] == "NS") { array_push($nameserver, $temp_array ['target']); }

$i++;

}
$count = sizeof($nameserver);
$i=0;

while($i < $count) {
       //This is just to show the contents of the nameserver array.
	print "nameserver[$i]: $nameserver[$i]<br>";

$i++;

}

?>

PHP:

That should put all the listed nameservers for the given YOURDOMAIN.COM into an array called $nameserver. You could then compare that with your own. I tested on a few different domains and went with the array because most domains have more than 1 NS record, this should extract them all.

Hope this helps you out

Eddie

 

Wow.. thanks! I've been trying all day and didn't get as far as you. Thanks!!

 

glad i could help