PHP DNS functions don't have a timeout while the default timeout for dig is 5 seconds (with several (3) tries)

It should drastically decrease time to get dns records, and lower failure errors like dns_get_record(): A temporary server error occurred.

For now this package is not on Packgist, so you need to add it to your composer.json manually

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "[email protected]:hostinger/php-dig.git"
        }
    ]
}

Install the latest version with

$ composer require hostinger/php-dig

$client = new \Hostinger\Dig\Client();
$result = $client->getRecord('hostinger.com', DNS_MX);

This is equal to

dns_get_record('hostinger.com', DNS_MX);

Package checks if it can run exec in server environment, otherwise it will fallback to dns_get_record().

You can set logger to debug / log package activity

$client = new \Hostinger\Dig\Client();
$logger = new \Monolog\Logger\Logger('App');
$logger->pushHandler(new StreamHandler('path/to/your.log'));
$client->setLogger($logger);

• php-dig client works with PHP 8.0 or above.

Bugs and feature request are tracked on GitHub

• Stack overflow question What would cause checkdnsrr() or dns_get_record() to take too long?
• Reddit thread: dns_get_record suddenly running very slowly