New submission from Nick Carboni:
socket.gethostbyaddr seems to be equating loopback addresses regardless of IP
protocol version.
In both versions tested (2.7.5 and 3.4.3) the ordering of the entries in my
/etc/hosts file determines the result I get, rather than what address I'm
querying for.
For example:
/etc/hosts:
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
result:
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyaddr("127.0.0.1")
('localhost', ['localhost.localdomain', 'localhost6',
'localhost6.localdomain6'], ['127.0.0.1'])
Then if I change the ordering of the entries in /etc/hosts as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
result:
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyaddr("127.0.0.1")
('localhost', ['localhost.localdomain', 'localhost4',
'localhost4.localdomain4'], ['127.0.0.1'])
I would expect gethostbyaddr to return only the hostnames associated with the
given address regardless of the ordering of the entries in /etc/hosts.
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messages: 278580
nosy: carbonin
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: socket gethostbyaddr returns IPv6 names for 127.0.0.1
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4
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