socket.gethostbyaddr() doesn't show existing aliases

[Sibylle Koczian]

Hello all,

the documentation for the socket module says that gethostbyaddr should 
return the primary host name and alternative host names if there are 
any. But the alias list is empty even in cases where I know aliases 
exist. I can get them using gethostbyname_ex, but that only works with 
names, not with IP addresses, and I want to resolve both sorts.

I'm using Python 2.3.2 on Windows NT4, SP6.

What's wrong?

Thank you,
Koczian

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