[AG-TECH] Python error on AG installation

Frank Sweetser fs at WPI.EDU
Thu Feb 5 20:07:42 CST 2004


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:35:08PM -0500, Douglas Baggett wrote:
> >  File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\DNS\Base.py", line 137, in conn
> >    self.s.connect((self.ns,self.port))
> >  File "<string>", line 1, in connect
> >gaierror: (7, 'getaddrinfo failed')
> 
> It seems like it's having problems doing a reverse lookup on my 
> hostname, but I'm able to reverse resolve my address using nslookup 
> without any problems. Is this a bug or is it something I should be 
> concerned with?

Are you sure that nslookup is using DNS?  I've caught windows nslookup
silently falling back to WINS resolution when DNS doesn't have an
answer.

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Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
WPI Network Engineer




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