Timeout in socket module?

[Drew Fisher]

Hello:

I seem to need some kind of python module that will allow me to
timeout socket connections during socket.gethostbyname () calls.  I
was digging around in deja and I found that Timothy O'Malley wrote a
module called timoutsocket.py.  I can't seem to find a copy of the
module anywhere (searches on google have only turned up links to his
webpage:  http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py which
appears to be down)

Can anyone either  A)  show me where to get this module or B)  give me
a work around for using socket.gethostbyname with a timeout?

Thanks!

Drew Fisher
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