[Yum-devel] urlgrabber and rrdns

[Michael Stenner]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:46:27PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 05:26 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > When using urlgrabber against an rrdns name, I am seeing that it picks 1
> > IP address from the list an overwhelming percentage of the time.
<snip>
> > I am not sure if this is a urlgrabber issue or whatever resolves the
> > URL's name in python, but I don't think it is the desired behavior.
> 
> as I think you mentioned on irc - this seems like a lower level python
> issue. If you can take a look at python's bug tracker and see if it's
> known. I bet it is.

Definitely not a urlgrabber issue.  urlgrabber does not directly
interact with DNS.  It uses "socket" (via httplib or ftplib via
urllib2) to do all that for it.
					-Michael
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