PYTHON gethostbyaddr

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import socket
socket.gethostbyaddr(ip_address)

PHP gethostbyaddr

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(PHP 4, PHP 5)

gethostbyaddr — Get the Internet host name corresponding to a given IP address

string gethostbyaddr ( string $ip_address )

Returns the host name of the Internet host specified by ip_address .

Returns the host name or the unmodified ip_address on failure.

Example #1 A simple gethostbyaddr() example


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

echo $hostname;
?>