UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte

[Νίκος Gr33k]

Στις 5/7/2013 3:06 πμ, ο/η Nobody έγραψε:
> On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:38:09 +0300, Νίκος wrote:
>
>> So you are also suggesting that what gesthostbyaddr() returns is not
>> utf-8 encoded too?
>
> The gethostbyaddr() OS function returns a byte string with no specified
> encoding. Python 3 will doubtless try to decode that to a character string
> using some (probably unspecified) encoding.
>
> Names obtained from DNS should consist entirely of ASCII characters
> (gethostbyname shouldn't attempt to decode internationalised names
> which use IDN, it should return the raw data).
>
> Names obtained by other means (e.g. /etc/hosts or Active Directory) could
> contain anything, but if you use non-ASCII hostnames you're asking for
> trouble.
>

Please help because i just happened to noticed that after having this code:

try:
	host = socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] )[0]
except Exception as e:
	host = "Reverse DNS Failed"


all requests are being resolves, result to:


Reverse DNS Failed as you can see here:
http://superhost.gr/?show=log&page=index.html

How can the above code not be able to reeverse dns any more and it falls 
back to  the failed string?

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