On 22 Aug, 10:15, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:37 pm Tomas Lidén wrote: > > > In what order are the addresses returned by socket.gethostbyname_ex()? > > > We know that gethostbyname() is indeterministic but hope that > > gethostbyname_ex() has a specified order. > > Did you want a particular order, or just any deterministic order? > > Have you considered sorting the addresses yourself? > > -- > Steven
In this particular case we have a host with several connections (LAN, WIFI, VmWare adapters etc). When using gethostbyname() we got a VmWare adapter but we wanted to get the LAN (or the "best" connection to our server). With gethostbyname_ex() the ordering seemed to become LAN, Wifi, etc and that's good for us. But we don't know if this holds on other platforms (we're running on Windows 7). A cross-platform deterministic order would be excellent for us. /Tomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
