socket.gethostbyaddr() is slower than Christmas

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:27:24PM -0600, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
> On a certain Redhat-7.3 system, socket.gethostbyaddr() calls to the
> localhost are taking upwards of 30 seconds to return.  What would
> account for such behavior?  Is this a bug?

gethostbyname() is very little more than a wrapper around the standard
library function.  I wouldn't expect Python to be the reason this is slow
for you, but instead I'd expect some kind of local configuration problem.

Jeff