abcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a linux machine (ip = 10.10.10.8), which can ping other >machines on the same subnet...such as > [ ... ] >If I use socket.gethostbyaddr(<ip>) I get back results when ip is >10.10.10.1 and 10.10.10.254 but for the other IP addresses >(10.10.10.5, .6, etc) I get back "unknown host". In fact I get >"unknown host" for the linux machine that I run the gethostbyaddr >from. > >If perform the same operation from a windows machine (ip = 10.10.10.5) >it returns data for the other IP addresses as expected. > >any ideas?
Almost certainly it's a name resolution configuration problem -- check that on the Linux machine 'host 10.10.10.x' gives the same results as Python, then go and look at what you've got in /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf . -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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