Gerrit Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am migrating a website from a UNIX based machine to an Windows > machine. In the logfiles I got from the old machine I mostly got > domain names and sometimes only IP addresses. The Windows machine > seems to produce only IP addresses. > > Somehow I cannot find a windows solution to translate an IP address > back into a domain-name. Searching with Google shows that more people > have been wrestling with this problem. > > I did find working whois scripts, but unfortunately: > - the verbose whois registrar information often forbids automated access > - the information is rather distributed, so you have to somehow access > sufficient servers > - you still have to find the domain name in the sea of details returned > > I also found socket based solutions, but these solutions crash with > the message "host not found" :-( > > Anyone suggestions?
This? C:\>py23 Python 2.3.5 (#62, Feb 8 2005, 16:23:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import socket >>> socket.gethostbyaddr("194.109.137.226") ('fang.python.org', [], ['194.109.137.226']) >>> Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list