how to resolve name from Python 1.5.*?

[Steve Holden]

"Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.fep.ru> wrote in message
news:mailman.988983015.22106.python-list at python.org...
> On Fri, 4 May 2001, Roman Suzi wrote:
> > How do I get a list of IP-address(es) corresponding to a given name
>
>    socket.gethostbyname
>
Unfortunately, on my 1.5.2 anyway, gethostbyname returns only one address:

Python 1.5.2 (#1, Mar  7 2000, 14:34:27)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
(egcs
- on linux-sparc
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyname('www.microsoft.com')
'207.46.230.218'
>>>
[sholden at holden sholden]$ nslookup www.microsoft.com
Server:  holden.holdenweb.com
Address:  10.0.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.microsoft.akadns.net
Addresses:  207.46.131.199, 207.46.230.229, 207.46.230.219, 207.46.230.218
          207.46.131.91
Aliases:  www.microsoft.com

regards
 Steve