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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 |