[Python-Dev] Re: _socket efficiency ideas (original) (raw)

Martin v. L�wis martin@v.loewis.de
10 Apr 2003 22:33:13 +0200


"Marangozov, Vladimir (Vladimir)" <vladimir.marangozov@optimay.com> writes:

Any decent DNS resolver first tries to figure out whether the requested name string is an IP address.

So how come that the very recent netdb libraries do DNS lookups for "apparently numeric" addresses, whereas somewhat older libraries don't?

Regards, Martin