[Python-Dev] xxx.get_fqdn() for the standard lib (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:48:37 +0200

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:46:50AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>>>>> "PS" == Peter Schneider-Kamp <nowonder@nowonder.de> writes:

PS> After sleeping over it, I noticed that at least PS> BaseHTTPServer and ftplib also use a similar PS> algorithm to get a fully qualified domain name.

PS> Together with smtplib there are four occurences PS> of the algorithm (2 in BaseHTTPServer). I think PS> it would be good not to have four, but one PS> implementation. PS> First I thought it could be socket.getfqdn(), PS> but it seems a bit troublesome to write it in C. PS> Should this go somewhere? If yes, where should PS> it go? PS> I'll happily prepare a patch as soon as I know PS> where to put it. I wonder if we should move socket to socket and write a Python wrapper which would basically import * from socket and add makefqdn().

+1 on that idea, especially since BeOS and Windows (I think ?) already have that constructions. If we are going to place this make_fqdn() function anywhere, it should be the socket module or a 'dns' module. (And I mean a real DNS module, not the low-level wrapper around raw DNS packets that Guido wrote ;)

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