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I don't know what can cause this problem, nginx configs or php or anything else but :

I can not make connection when host value for these php functions listed below is set to FQDN like http://www.domain.com or www.domain.com but problem all goes away if i put hostname ip for instance 192.2.8.1 .

 ex: @fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 10) 
    won't establish connection when $host = "www.somedomain.com"
    successfully connects when $host = "192.2.2.1"

listed functions suffering form the same problem so far

  • @fsockopen
  • @file_get_contents
  • phpmailer can't send email through SMTP when host is "www.somedomain.com" but succesfully send mail when host is "192.2.2.1"

all of those were working perfectly before i point my FQDN to my server and when i was testing
plus it all works both with ip and domain from my pc running wammp server and on same app, on same codes

i'm not 100% sure but i guess this problem raised after i pointed my domain and DNS to server ?!

Note : this case is related to server configs and i have provided php references to better describe the case

' downvoters can now relax, i have completely changed the description ' .

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  • Did you check the obvious? What is in your /etc/resolv.conf? Jul 16, 2014 at 16:31
  • this is my resolv.conf values : nameserver 8.8.4.4 nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 209.244.0.3
    – Timberland
    Jul 16, 2014 at 17:50

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Ok ! Finally after a week struggling with this issue :

First of all it seems to be a very popular problem for a century !

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=11058
https://www.google.com/search?hl=es&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=php+php_network_getaddresses%3A+getaddrinfo+failed&meta=&gws_rd=ssl

Some ppl have found individual solutions at their own but definitely it's not a PHP bug .

What this issue can cover :

  • If you can't connect with @fsockopen
  • If can't get content with @file_get_contents
  • If your php script can't send email or connect to SMTP Server
  • If you can't ping your domain or getting can't find ping: Non-existent domain
  • If you can't knock your server ip and getting getaddrinfo() failed
  • If you have problem with php_network_getaddresses directly
  • If your Wordpress throws error Unable to Connect to tcp://mydomain.com:80. Error #0: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.

--Things that can cause these problems-------------------------------------------------

[X]

First thing to check is to check your php.ini and make sure these attributes are enabled

allow_url_fopen = On
allow_url_include = On


[X]

Create a phpinfo() file [ phpinfofile.com just in case ] and check if these extensions are enabled

OpenSSL
Socket

Especially for windows user running xammp or wammp by disabling PHP_OpenSSL extension you might be unable to connect through @fsockopen



[X]

Now the important part, is to go after resolv.conf Open your resolv.conf by running

sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf
  1. Delete comments, if there is a comment line at the start completely remove it
  2. Make a change to nameservers, even if they are fine just change the order of them, this helps to purge DNS cache if there's an old cache



[X]

Strongly make sure your /etc/resolv.conf is not a symlink pointing to some directories commonly at /run/resolvconf/ or etc .. you can run

ls -la /etc/resolv.conf
and see what the result is, if it's something like

-rw-r----- 1 root root ` ` /etc/resolv.conf --------> /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf

If you have an ftp access go download your /etc/resolv.conf then rename the current one on your server to something line /etc/resolv.conf-----bk ( to have it just for backup ) and then upload the one you downloaded from your system to server /etc/

Or if you don't have access to ftp run these commands

sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.bak
sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf
sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf
put your nameservers on new file 

ex:
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

and save it by pressing Ctr + X  then Type "Y" and hit enter
chmod a+r /etc/resolv.conf

In this case my issue was that !

[X]

Make sure your reslv.conf is accessible to all users

chmod a+r /etc/resolv.conf


The result should be

 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root <size> <date> 
after running ls -la /etc/resolv.conf

[X]

Next Run

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Find the dns-nameservers and make sure nameservers seem fine ( preferably put whatever nameservers that are on your /etc/resolv.conf file - ex: dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4



That's all that i've discovered for this issue so far , i tried it to be understandable for anyone, sorry for annoying references to things you well know
If anybody else have something more for this matter please share it .

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Nginx doesn't use the system's resolver. You have to define the resolver using the resolver directive.

Configures name servers used to resolve names of upstream servers into addresses, for example:

resolver 8.8.8.8 valid=30s;

Source: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#resolver

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due to amount of information you provided it's really hard to help you, but I'd start by checking /etc/resolv.conf and check each of nameserver to see if it works properly:

[alexus@wcmisdlin02 ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
search XXX.XXX
nameserver XX.XX.XX.XX
nameserver XX.XX.XX.XX
[alexus@wcmisdlin02 ~]$ 

you can use dig, host and nslookup.

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  • if any specific information you need please ask
    – Timberland
    Jul 16, 2014 at 15:18
  • @Timberland judging from amount of downvotes, your question could use some better description, try providing us MORE information and not less if you still want us to help you out. It sounds like you're mixing several issues into one question, try to separate them.
    – alexus
    Jul 16, 2014 at 16:08
  • no i am not mixing anything they are altogether side-effects of one single problem , maybe some of them are not necessary to mention and might confuse you but it's just One single problem, as long as i can't guess what that could be , nginx or php-fpm config or .. i gave those examples . but i take your advise and try to clean up the description a bit
    – Timberland
    Jul 16, 2014 at 17:10

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