Bugs item #1603527, was opened at 2006-11-27 05:43
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Eric S. Raymond (esr)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Python socket library confused by IPV6 notation in /etc/host

Initial Comment:
Robert J.Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported this on the gpsd-dev mailing list 
of the GPSD project.

"Until I changed the line in /etc/hosts from:

::1    localhost.localdomain   localhost

to:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

the gps.py [library distributed by the GPSD project] would fail when trying to 
open the socket connection to gpsd:

   File "/usr/local/bin/spGps.py", line 198, in __init__
     self.connect(host, port)
   File "/usr/local/bin/spGps.py", line 237, in connect
     raise socket.error, msg
socket.error: (111, 'Connection refused')

This is with Python 2.4.4 under Red Hat Linux, kernel version not reported.

Robert believes, and I concur, that this is not a GPSD bug.  Rather, something 
lower-level -- possibly the Python socket library, possibly some C library it 
uses -- is having indigestion on the IPV6 notation.


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