On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 2:31 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > See my following test: > > With ipython: > > In [1]: import > socket > > In [2]: socket.gethostbyname > ('www.vpngate.net') > Out[2]: '130.158.75.44' > > > With dig: > > $ dig www.vpngate.net @114.114.114.114 +short > 31.13.65.1 > $ dig www.vpngate.net @8.8.8.8 +short > 46.82.174.68 > > Any hints?
When you ask dig, you are always asking for a DNS lookup. But gethostbyname does a lot of other things too. My guess is that your /etc/hosts has an entry for that domain. It's also possible that your DNS resolver is misconfigured, especially since the authoritative servers for that domain disagree with your dig results. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list