Logging more than a visitor's IP

[Anon]

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone could help me.

I've put a PHP stats page one of my sites (which does offer logging as part of the package) using $REMOTE_ADDR. This gives me their IP address as 123.456.789.012 for instance.

When I look at the log files for my site which has logging, the same user shows up as host123-456-789-012.btinternet.com for instance.

Is there anyway to modify my PHP stats script so that it gathers the same information as my other site's log file?

Thanks

Owen

[brandonschnell]

you'll need to use reverse dns to convert the ip address to a dns name.

try something like:
echo gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR);

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostbyaddr.php

[Anon]

Thanks very much Brandon you've been a great help!