>After a little more investigation here, it appears that getfqdn() returns
>the name unchanged (or perhaps run through the system's resolver libs) if
>there's no reverse DNS PTR entry. In the case given above,
>otherbox.mydomain.com didn't have a reverse DNS entry, so getfqdn()
>returned 'OTHERBOX'
> > * getfqdn(): The function seems to not always return the FQDN. For
> >example, if I run the following code from 'mybox.mydomain.com', I get
> >strange output. Does getfqdn() remove the common domain between my
> >hostname and the one that I'm looking up?
> socket.getfqdn('otherbox')
> >
>Without further ado, the questions:
>
> * getfqdn(): The module docs specify that if no FQDN can be found,
>socket.getfqdn() should return the hostname as returned by
>gethostname(). However, CPython seems to return the passed-in hostname
>rather than the local machine's hostname (as would be expe
Hello,
I'm working on implementing a socket module for IronPython that aims to
be compatible with the standard CPython module documented at
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-socket.html. I have a few questions
about some corner cases that I've found. CPython results below are from
Python 2.4.3 (#6
