How to get custom domain names to work with "php_network_getaddresses"

Question

My domain is set in the windows "hosts" file and it is named like "my.site". I'm using it for development.

But this doesn't seem to work with the fsockopen() open function. I get "php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known".

Is it possible to make it work?

Answer 1

This completely works for me:

// inside hosts file:
// 10.128.0.23 test.domain.example

$socket = fsockopen('test.domain.example', 80);
fclose($socket);

I can ping that domain name and get a valid answer, and it runs a web server on port 80.

I read from your comment that your PHP is inside a virtual machine - then you should try if the ping does work there also, and if not: add the domain name to your hosts file as well. Virtual machines do not necessarily inherit the name resolving capabilities of their hosts.