In article <356978ef-e9c1-48fd-bb87-849fe8e27...@p5g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, Tomas Lidén <to...@liden-privat.net> 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. Why would you hope that? Or maybe a better question is, why would you expect that? In general, all name resolution calls return results in arbitrary order. In some cases, results are intentionally changed on every call (i.e. round-robin) in an attempt at load sharing. What kind of ordering were you hoping for?
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