[issue27136] sock_connect fails for bluetooth (and probably others)

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

> Why validate at all?

Because (at least for the IP 4/6 protocols) when you give a host name
Python's socket code will do a synchronous DNS lookup which would hold
up the entire event loop until it's done. This would be a major
problem in some cases, so we want to disallow it completely.

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