Matthew S. Hartmann wrote:
>
> you won't have any luck with the "gethostbyaddr" as that is simply a
> dns function of the socket module in python.

?? There's a gethostbyaddr function in glibc. Try 'man 3 gethostbyaddr'
for details.

To the OP: can you post a code sample to demonstrate how gethostbyaddr
failed?