PHP error: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: (while getting information from other site.)

Question

Trying to get information from an external source, I'm receiving the following error:

Warning: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in line #...

Yesterday everything was fine, so what happened to this script, which is not working and gives me the error above? Any solution or hint to solve this problem?

$uri = "http://api.hostip.info/?ip=$ip&position=true";  $dom->load($uri); 

I also tried by converting DNS to IP but then I get the warning: failed to open

$uri = "174.129.200.54/?ip=$ip&position=true"; 

I tried to remove the http but am still getting the above error.

Answer 1

It's because you can't resolve the host name Maybe DNS problems, host is unreachable...

try to use IP address instead of host name... ping this host name... nslookup it...