file_get_contents(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed

Question

I\'m trying to update some values from one server to another server with a cron job. I use file_get_contents().

The strange thing is that this fails occasionally. One min

Answer 1

The name lookup appears to fail whilst running within a cron job sometimes. I've only seen it with names in /etc/hosts, but I haven't tested DNS names.

I was seeing it with sending email and SMTP connection timeouts.

I don't know the exact cause, but in my case I got my SMTP code to connect to 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost and the problem went away.