ftplib connection fails with multiple nics

[Sean DiZazzo]

On Oct 16, 4:51 pm, Sean DiZazzo <half.ital... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to connect to an ftp site from a windows machine with two
> nics going to two different networks, but I keep getting the below
> exception:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "ftp.pyo", line 70, in connect
>   File "ftp.pyo", line 17, in __init__
>   File "ftplib.pyo", line 131, in connect
>   File "socket.pyo", line 498, in create_connection
> gaierror: [Errno 10093] getaddrinfo failed
>
> I think it is because of the two nics, because the code runs fine on
> other machines.  Any ideas on how to fix this?
>
> TIA.
>
> ~Sean

What does socket.getaddrinfo() rely on??