PHP5 connects to MS-SQL 2005 with empty hostname

[genux33]

Hi All,

I am currently engaged in the project that uses PHP5 on IIS6 with the DB being MS-SQL2005. One thing that the DBA has told me is that any connections made from my PHP scripts to the database actually has empty 'hostname' (which should not be) whereas all other applications' connections would have a non-empty hostname. I have no idea why this is. Can anyone enlighten me? I am not sure if this is related to IIS6.0 or MSSQL 2005.

I knew of a solution that is to sqlsrv driver?
Is there any workaround without switching to sqlsrv driver?

Thanks in advance!!!

[dalecosp]

<?php

$myhostname=system("hostname");

?>