On Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:06:43 PM UTC-7, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 08/31/2013 10:51 PM, anntzer....@gmail.com wrote: > > > It is the call to gethostbyname_ex that is very slow. The call to > > gethostname is quick (and returns the same string as > > /usr/bin/hostname). > > What gethostbyname_ex and /usr/bin/hostname do are very different > things. gethostbyname_ex does a DNS lookup against a server. > /usr/bin/hostname just checks a local computer setting. I don't see why > you are comparing the two. /usr/bin/hostname is not going to help you > find a list of IP addresses that point to a machine.
I was just replying to the previous comment "name = socket.gethostname() see how long that takes and what it returns. Then, assuming it returns a string containing your hostname (massive handwave about what that actually means)", saying that gethostname resolves my own hostname instantaneously. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
