On 22 Aug, 13:26, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > 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?
See previous posts. Basically I was asking about the contract for this method.. hoping that it is deterministic. Our testing indicated that the interfaces are returned in a specific order, but we want to know if this is really the case (on all platforms). /Tomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
