[issue29705] socket.gethostbyname, getaddrinfo etc broken on MacOS 10.12

Sorin Sbarnea added the comment: It seems that the bug is still present. There is some additional information on the new report https://bugs.python.org/issue35164 -- nosy: +ssbarnea ___ Python tracker __

[issue29705] socket.gethostbyname, getaddrinfo etc broken on MacOS 10.12

James Crowther added the comment: Hi Ned, Thats ok, thanks! I’m going to try it on another machine, its really strange, I’m wondering what I might have done on my mac to cause it to flake out like this. Will do some more testing with other macs running 10.12 and see if they have the s

[issue29705] socket.gethostbyname, getaddrinfo etc broken on MacOS 10.12

Ned Deily added the comment: James, I'm sorry I didn't show it but using socket.gethostname() as the source of hostname works just fine, too. import socket >>> hostname = socket.gethostname() >>> hostname 'harj.local' >>> socket.getaddrinfo(hostname, None) [(, , 17, '', ('fe80::8d8:1de3:dfa:e3

[issue29705] socket.gethostbyname, getaddrinfo etc broken on MacOS 10.12

James Crowther added the comment: Hi Ned, Currently running 10.12.3. and output is as follows Jamess-MacBook-pro:crowdrender_repository jamesmac$ python3.5 Python 3.5.2 (v3.5.2:4def2a2901a5, Jun 26 2016, 10:47:25) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copy

[issue29705] socket.gethostbyname, getaddrinfo etc broken on MacOS 10.12

Ned Deily added the comment: Sorry, I can't reproduce that behavior with my macOS 10.12, 10.11, or 10.10 systems if the hostname is a valid string including "localhost". If the string is empty or hostname is None, then I see Errno 8. $ /usr/local/bin/python3.6 Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a1

[issue29705] socket.gethostbyname, getaddrinfo etc broken on MacOS 10.12

James Crowther added the comment: Hi Ned, Doesn’t seem to matter, I can try my local host name given by; socket.gethostname() or I can try another host on the network, same result. If I do the exact same operation using the same python version on windows or linux, then I get the exp

[issue29705] socket.gethostbyname, getaddrinfo etc broken on MacOS 10.12

Ned Deily added the comment: What value are you using for hostname? -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list ma

[issue29705] socket.gethostbyname, getaddrinfo etc broken on MacOS 10.12

New submission from James Crowther: Currently I can't use socket to resolve host names to IP addresses. This is something critical to mine as well as other applications that run over networks. When I attempt to do the following: import socket socket.getaddrinfo(hostname, None) or socket.ge