Hi Craig,

Have you tried using nslookup? That should return the CNAME entry
containing what you seek.

Also, curiosity is killing me as to why knowing server numbers for machines
you don't control would be useful.

kyle

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Craig Dietrich <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This has been driving me crazy and OCLC hasn't written me back: is there a
> trustworthy way to get the server ID# from CONTENTdm?
>
> I've been relying on
>
> '//'.$hostname.'/utils/diagnostics'
>
> ... which under some cases returns this string:
>
> server12345.contentdm.oclc.org
>
> ... with 12345 in this case being the server ID#.
>
> But for many CONTENTdm sites this string isn't present.
>
> The home page HTML for CONTENTdm has a lot of useful info in it, but not
> the ID# that I can find.
>
> Anyone had any luck?
>
> Thanks!
> Craig
>