On Sunday, September 1, 2013 4:37:34 AM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: > Yes, it most definitely CAN be a network config issue. The C function > you want to be calling is getifaddrs(), and I don't think there's a > way to call that from core Python. But a Google search for 'python > getifaddrs' shows up a few third-party modules that might be of use to > you; that'd be a lot quicker and more reliable than trying to look up > your own hostname and depending on the results. > > ChrisA
I tried using netifaces (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces) which seems to rely on getifaddrs (according to the doc, I didn't check the source). Again, it returns nearly instantaneously the correct IP address. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list