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Mon Sep 17 18:37:36 CEST 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-September/074688.html

To get the hostname, I can use socket.gethostbyname() but that has an
inherent limitation wherein does it not support IPv6 name resolution, and
getaddrinfo() should be used instead.

Looking up the socket.getaddrinfo() documentation, I come to know that

The getaddrinfo() function returns a list of 5-tuples with the following
structure:

(family, socktype, proto, canonname, sockaddr)

family, socktype, proto are all integer and are meant to be passed to
the socket() function. canonname is a string representing the canonical
name of the host. It can be a numeric IPv4/v6 address when AI_CANONNAME
is specified for a numeric host.

With this information, if I try something like this:

>>> for res in socket.getaddrinfo('goofy.goofy.com', None,
	socket.AI_CANONNAME):

        print res

(2, 1, 6, '', ('10.98.1.6', 0))
(2, 2, 17, '', ('10.98.1.6', 0))
(2, 3, 0, '', ('10.98.1.6', 0))

In the output, I see the cannoname to be always blank ''. I am not
getting the IPv4 or IPv6 address as a result of using getaddrinfo().

Am I making any mistake?

What i am trying is a replacement function for
socket.gethostbyname(hostname) which will work for both IPv4 and IPv6 (and make changes in urllib2 to support that)

# return hostbyname for either IPv4 or IPv6 address. Common function.

def ipv6_gethostbyname(hostname):
        for res in socket.getaddrinfo(hostname,None,
		socket.AI_CANONNAME):
                fa, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
        return cannoname

The above function does not seem to work. It returns blank value only.

Any help/ pointers? 

-- 
O.R.Senthil Kumaran
http://uthcode.sarovar.org

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