On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Martin A. Brown <mar...@linux-ip.net> wrote: > Another (non-Python) DNS name lookup library that does practically > the same thing (along with the shortcomingsn you mentioned, Chris: > no NSS nor /etc/hosts) is the adns library. Well, it is DNS, after > all. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/adns/ > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/adns-python/1.2.1 > > And, there are Python bindings. I have been quite happy using the > adns tools (and tools built on the Python bindings) for mass lookups > (millions of DNS names). It works very nicely. > > Just sharing knowledge of an existing tool, >
Ultimately, anything that replaces a gethostbyname/getaddrinfo call with an explicit DNS lookup is going to have the exact same benefit and downside: lookups won't freeze the program, but you can't use /etc/hosts any more. (Slightly sloppy language but that's how an end user will see it.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
