2.6.7: Does socket.gethostbyaddr truncate?

Dan Stromberg drsalists at gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 11:56:16 EST 2018


dig -x should return a single PTR in all cases, shouldn't it?

What IP are you using?

2.6 is very old.  You probably should move to at Least 2.7, and plan a
move to 3.x.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at vub.be> wrote:
> I am using python 2.6.7 to do a little network programming, but it seems I don't
> get all the results.
>
> When I call socket.gethostbyaddr(IP) entry [1] of the result is a list of 34 addresses.
>
> However when I use: dig -x IP I get a list of 46 addresses.



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