abcd wrote: > I have a linux machine (ip = 10.10.10.8), which can ping other > machines on the same subnet...such as > > 10.10.10.1 > 10.10.10.2 > 10.10.10.5 > 10.10.10.6 > 10.10.10.254 > > 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? > Probably the Windows hosts are resolving the addresses to names using WINS, a NetBIOS-over-TCP compatible naming service, while the Unix hosts are trying to use the DNS.
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