On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:18 AM, high bandwidth <widebandwi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I use cached dns lookups with pdnsd on my ubuntu machine to speed up >> web access as regular lookups can take 15-30 seconds. However, python's >> mechanize and urllib etc use socket.getaddrinfo, which seems not to be >> using dns cacheing or taking a long time because of ipv6 lookups. In >> either case, I subsequent access to the same site to be fast and not >> require lengthy calls to getaddrinfo. How can I get python to correctly >> use cached dns lookups and ipv4 only (at least in those cases where it >> is appropriate). To only query IPv4 addresses, pass socket.AF_INET as the third argument (family) to socket.getaddrinfo(). The default is AF_UNSPEC (= 0), which will return both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list