[Python-Dev] test_multiprocessing:test_listener_client flakiness (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 01:03:08 CEST 2008

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

2008/6/18 Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com>:

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Jesse Noller <jnoller gmail.com> writes:

The server component is listening to localhost by default. The client in the code I pasted has the server's .address attribute passed into it to tell the client where to connect to. So I take it that the .address attribute is different from "localhost", but why? Is there any point in trying to be clever here? No, it is not different than localhost - it is localhost as that is the object.address of the server. Well, on my win2k machine getfqdn('127.0.0.1') returns the actual name of the machine. This is the name that was stored in server.address. Hence my patch that simply remove the call to getfqdn.

Point of interest: I was involved in developing an application where we gave up on trying to persuade getfqdn() to return reliable results on Windows machines - regardless of which local network interface you use to do the lookup, Windows 2k3 is likely to return an answer of 'computername.computerdomain' without bothering to consult the local DNS server (annoyingly, it used to do this right on previous Windows versions).

So I'm inclined to consider any code which expects a useful answer out of getfqdn() to be non-portable at best and outright broken at worst. We worked around the problem by only doing forward DNS lookups and always working with addresses in the IP domain.

Cheers, Nick.

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