CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Performs an "A" record DNS lookup. Based on GetHostAddress() by Ben Forta. This version returns all A records for the host in an array. Good if you need need to get all host addresses for a host that uses round-robin DNS. (The comment in the original function refers to this as a "reverse lookup" but that is not actually correct DNS terminology-- this is a forward lookup.)

Return Values:
Returns an array.

Example:

<cfset addr = GetAllHostAddresses("www.yahoo.com")>
<cfloop list="#arraytolist(addr)#" index="ip">
    <cfoutput>#ip#<br /></cfoutput>
</cfloop>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Looks up all IP addresses for a hostname and returns them in an array.  Requires Java.
 * 
 * @param host      Host name. (Required)
 * @return Returns an array. 
 * @author David Chaplin-Loebell (davidcl@tlavideo.com) 
 * @version 1, September 22, 2005 
 */
function getAllHostAddresses(host) {
    var iaclass=""; //holds the Java object
    var addr="";    //holds the array returned by the java object
    var hostaddr=arrayNew(1);    //holds the returned array of IP addresses.
    var i = "";
       
    // Init class
    iaclass=CreateObject("java", "java.net.InetAddress");

    // Get address
    addr=iaclass.getAllByName(host);

    // Return the address
    for (i=1; i LTE ArrayLen(addr); i=i+1) {
        iaclass = Addr[i]; //can't access Addr[i].getHostAddress() directly in CF5
        hostaddr[i] = iaclass.getHostAddress();
    }
    return hostaddr;
}