Question

I’ve been given this code to utilize to test out, and verify if email addresses coming in are valid. I know this works, but again with all gifts during Christmas the price tag has been removed.

In my case, the instructions have been stripped. I am taking by what I see in this script that the “MX” is telling the script to use the MX Verify database… do I just replace or add next to it ,”spamhaus.org” to make it work? Or is it more than that?

I am not on a windows machine as my server so I don’t need to worry checkdnsrr not working.

Also, is there a better version of this script out there? I’m curious because unthankfully this part of PHP coding is new to me.

Thanks in advance.

// take a given email address and split it into the username and domain.
list($userName, $mailDomain) = split("@", $email);
if (checkdnsrr($mailDomain, "MX")) {
  // this is a valid email domain!
}
else {
  // this email domain doesn't exist! bad dog! no biscuit!
} 

Answer 1

From http://php.net/manual/en/function.checkdnsrr.php the only supported methods for checkdnsr are A, MX, NS, SOA, PTR, CNAME, AAAA, A6, SRV, NAPTR, TXT or ANY. you can’t add in a custom URL.

Try:

$host = '64.53.200.156';

$rbl  = 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org';
// valid query format is: 156.200.53.64.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
$rev = array_reverse(explode('.', $host));

$lookup = implode('.', $rev) . '.' . $rbl;

if ($lookup != gethostbyname($lookup)) {
    echo "ip: $host is listed in $rbl\n";
} else {
    echo "ip: $host NOT listed in $rbl\n";
}