On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:03:54PM -0400, Richard Lowe wrote: > Will Fiveash <William.Fiveash at Sun.COM> writes: > > >> In > >> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~mjnelson/toolsreview/webrev.python/usr/src/tools/onbld/Checks/__init__.py.html > >> > >> 48 # > >> 49 # Generic check to test if a host is on SWAN > >> 50 # > >> 51 def onSWAN(): > >> 52 try: > >> 53 if socket.gethostbyname("sunweb.central.sun.com."): > >> 54 return True > >> 55 else: > >> 56 return False > >> 57 except: > >> 58 return False > >> > >> - Perhaps it would be good to test a couple more internal hosts if > >> sunweb is down? > > It's a DNS lookup. I would assume that if you can't resolve sunweb > you'd be unable to resolve anything else swan-specific you may wish to > use(?).
Missed that, you've got a good point there. -- Will Fiveash Sun Microsystems Inc. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kerberos/
