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

[Lele Gaifax]

Νίκος Gr33k <nikos at superhost.gr> writes:

> try:
> 	host = socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] )[0]
> except Exception as e:
> 	host = "Reverse DNS Failed"
>
> How can the above code not be able to reeverse dns any more and it
> falls back to  the failed string?

The only way to know is actually printing out the exception, either to
stderr, or better using the logging facility, as I suggested.

FYI, your code above is (almost) exactly equivalent to the simpler

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

ciao, lele.
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