[Zope] ZServer (FTP): socket.error: host not found

[Oliver Thuns]

>It works for me. Check to be certain that your DNS has a PTR record for 
>your host. Winsock is SUPPOSED to support this for "localhost" even 
>without DNS, but if you're multi-homed that may be a problem.

I have no DNS, it's a local system only. I'm using Windows 95 and this
doesn't work. But it should no problem to "fix" the ftp_server. The
IP_ADDRESS could set in start.py and this address is used by the
http_server module, but not by the ftp_server module.


>> If I start ZServer under Windows I get the following error ind the
>> ftp_server module. This can be easily fixed by changing line 57 and
>> inserting the IP, but this is not very nice. Could you fix this?
>> 
>> Traceback (innermost last):
>>   File "start.py", line 20, in ?
>>     import ZServerFTP
>>   File "ZServerFTP.py", line 158, in ?
>>     from medusa.ftp_server import ftp_channel, ftp_server
>>   File "medusa\ftp_server.py", line 57, in ?
>>     IP_ADDRESS = socket.gethostbyname (socket.gethostname())
>> socket.error: host not found