In article <pan.2012.11.15.22.54.09.449...@nowhere.com>, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> That's because the high-level routines aren't tied to DNS. This is true. >> gethostbyname() and getaddrinfo() use the NSS (name-service switch) > mechanism, which is configured via /etc/nsswitch.conf. Depending upon > configuration, hostnames can be looked up via a plain text file > (/etc/hosts), Berkeley DB files, DNS, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, WINS, etc. Gethostbyname() long predates NSS. For that matter, I think it even predates DNS (i.e. back to the days when /etc/hosts was the *only* way to look up a hostname). But, that's a nit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
