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| author | Sebastian Wagner <sebix@sebix.at> | 2016-07-03 11:05:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Sebastian Wagner <sebix@sebix.at> | 2016-07-03 11:32:12 +0200 |
| commit | a923720ca5a29dc515a001da5bf026c9898e1ee3 (patch) | |
| tree | 585bd490211327f9c67d73f784300936d1671be0 | |
| parent | f6b91add2af058d370ccc9276cb25c7686670c11 (diff) | |
| download | dnspython-a923720ca5a29dc515a001da5bf026c9898e1ee3.tar.gz | |
doc: we dont read /etc/hosts
closes #149
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Wagner <sebix@sebix.at>
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@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records. To see a few of the ways dnspython can be used, look in the examples/ directory. +dnspython is a utility to work with DNS, `/etc/hosts` is thus not used. +For simple forward DNS lookups, better use `socket.gethostbyname()`. + dnspython originated at Nominum where it was developed to facilitate the testing of DNS software. Nominum has generously allowed it to be open sourced under a BSD-style license, and helps support its future |