For ad-rotator.com, we need to do a lot of IP lookups, gethostbyaddr is very easy get timed-out and the script stucks there forever. Here is a fail-safe alternative, 1 sec max for timeout per IP.
function ar_gethostbyaddr($ip) {
$output = `host -W 1 $ip`;
if (ereg('.*pointer ([A-Za-z0-9.-]+)\..*',$output,$regs)) {
return $regs[1];
}
return $ip;
}