Message 233779 - Python tracker

This seems to be related to issue20605 where _socket.getaddrinfo() mysteriously fails on some Snow Leopard systems but not others; I don't think the cause of that one was ever explained but this appears to be the same error:


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ERROR: test_basic (test.test_logging.SMTPHandlerTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/geoff/Documents/programming/cpython/Lib/test/test_logging.py", line 930, in test_basic
    sockmap)
  File "/Users/geoff/Documents/programming/cpython/Lib/test/test_logging.py", line 687, in __init__
    decode_data=True)
  File "/Users/geoff/Documents/programming/cpython/Lib/smtpd.py", line 654, in __init__
    type=socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  File "/Users/geoff/Documents/programming/cpython/Lib/socket.py", line 730, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known