[Python-Dev] Mac OSX issues

[Brett Cannon]

[Skip Montanaro]

> What does the hostname(1) command return?  By default I think it generates
> some oddball thing like "Montanaro.local.".  Apple calls it a Rendevous
> name.  (I've no idea what that is.)  The fix for me was recommended by

Rendevous is Apple's implementation of IEEE's zero-conf.  The "oddball"
name is what is used  for the local DNS entries used by Rendevous since it
stores info by name instead of IP.

-Brett