. * * @package LibreNMS * @link http://librenms.org * @copyright 2019 Tony Murray * @author Tony Murray */ namespace LibreNMS\Util; class Validate { /** * Checks if the give string is a valid hostname * @param string $hostname * @return boolean */ public static function hostname($hostname) { // The Internet standards (Request for Comments) for protocols mandate that // component hostname labels may contain only the ASCII letters 'a' through 'z' // (in a case-insensitive manner), the digits '0' through '9', and the hyphen // ('-'). The original specification of hostnames in RFC 952, mandated that // labels could not start with a digit or with a hyphen, and must not end with // a hyphen. However, a subsequent specification (RFC 1123) permitted hostname // labels to start with digits. No other symbols, punctuation characters, or // white space are permitted. While a hostname may not contain other characters, // such as the underscore character (_), other DNS names may contain the underscore // maximum length is 253 characters, maximum segment size is 63 return ( preg_match("/^([a-z\d](-*[a-z\d])*)(\.([a-z\d](-*[a-z\d])*))*\.?$/i", $hostname) //valid chars check && preg_match("/^.{1,253}$/", $hostname) //overall length check && preg_match("/^[^\.]{1,63}(\.[^\.]{1,63})*\.?$/", $hostname) ); } }