high volume/speed gethostbyaddr how?

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Dan Polak wrote
> Gethostbyaddr blocks by default, this means that there is an appreciable 
> delay before it returns.
> If you need to lookup a fair number of hostnames gethostbyaddr is much 
> too slow.
> Using select or the asyncore library might be the way to do it, but I 
> don't really understand how to make that work.
> What is a good way to retrieve the names for a 100 hosts within a few 
> seconds?

You could always use the DNS code from pydns.sf.net...

Anthony
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