Tomas Lidén wrote:
> 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). Define "best" connection. If I tell you that my server has the following 6 connections: Wifi1, LAN4, LAN1, LAN2, Wifi2, LAN5 which one is "best"? Once you have an algorithm for deciding which connection is "best" for everybody, then you can check whether gethostbyname_ex uses that algorithm, or some other one. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
