http.client and dns lookups
Dieter Maurer
dieter at handshake.de
Mon Jan 31 14:02:46 EST 2022
Michael Welle wrote at 2022-1-30 09:18 +0100:
> ...
The machine this is running on regularly switches
>its network configuration without restarting the Python application. Now
>it turns out that the application is still using an old, outdated dns
>server after such a network configuration switch.
It is unlikely that Python performs the host -> IP address translation
itself. Almost surely, the translation is delegated to functions
of the underlying C runtime library, e.g. "gethostbyname".
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