On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:43:38 -0500, Adrian Powell wrote: > Since I'm actually trying to write a twitter client, I was more focused > on the results from twitter. Since google and twitter are so huge and so > distributed, I'd bet neither are good tests for this, but they look > approximately right. > > Are there better ways to test if our network setup is good? At least > that would be a relatively easy thing to fix.
I think I'd first try "dig www.google.com" to be sure that it is resolving, then I believe I'd try to fetch the URL from your code sample using cUrl. If both of those work then I'm not sure what I'd look at next. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list