twisted: not doing DNS resolutions?

[Christopher Subich]

Christopher Subich wrote:
> Christopher Subich wrote:
> 
>>  From what I can tell, the problem lies in that Twisted simply isn't 
>> performing the DNS resolutions.  From the connection factory's 

... right, finally figured it out after a very long time at debugging 
the beast.

It's an interaction with IDLE.

What happens is that the deferToThread call in twisted's lookup Just 
Doesn't Run Right (under some circumstances) when it's run under IDLE 
with tksupport.  I finally got the idea to run the application from the 
command line, and it worked just fine.  This is kind of odd, since a 
trivial test case run from the interactive idle prompt works okay, but 
it's now 5am and I'm going to sleep.

Moral: beware the IDLEs of March.