[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks, however, I forgot to mention that I'm using windows, and from what
> I've tried, the setdefaulttimeout function doesn't work on my machine.
> Again, thanks for your help!
> Brandon McGinty
>
What version of Python are you running? Under 3.4 setdefaulttimeout()
works perfectly well on my Windows system.
If you are running 2.3 or earlier, you may want to use Timothy
O'Malley's timeoutsocket module instead.
However, you seem to be assuming that socket.gethostbyaddr() will report
on the existence of systems, which I don't think it will - that function
is for converting IP addresses to names:
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyaddr("127.0.0.1")
('localhost', [], ['127.0.0.1'])
>>> socket.gethostbyaddr("192.168.10.215")
('bigboy.lan', [], ['192.168.10.215'])
>>> socket.gethostbyaddr("82.165.194.52")
('perfora.net', [], ['82.165.194.52'])
>>>
So it will tell you something about the DNS service's content rather
than the existence or non-existence of systems at a particular IP address.
regards
Steve
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