[Zope] DNS lookup problem with urllib in external methods

[Joel Burton]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, oivvio polite wrote:

> Have anyone seen this strange behavior.
> 
>  urllib.urlget("http://some-url")
> 
> works perfectly well from a regular python script.
> 
> The the same line will produce an 
> 
>   Error Type: IOError 
>   Error Value: [Errno socket error] host not found
> 
> when called from an external zope method.
> 
> 
> However
> 
>  urllib.urlget("http://some-ipnumber")
> 
> will work fine in that same external method.
> 
> Any ideas? Does zope use some special dns settings?

Strange. I've used urlib successfully w/hostnames. (Zope 2.3.3, Linux 2.4,
Python 1.5.2)

Can you post your exact script & details of how its called?

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Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington