Mohammed Smadi wrote: > hi; > I am trying to do some very basic socket programming and i get the > following error. Any help will be appreciated: > > Code: > import socket > x = socket.gethostbyaddr("www.google.ca") > > return an error: socket.herror: (1, 'Unknown host')
You're using the wrong method. >>> socket.gethostbyname("www.google.ca") '66.102.9.147' --Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list