gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow)

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2013-08-31 17:03 -0700
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Subject	gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow)
From	anntzer.lee@gmail.com

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Hi,

At startup, IPython (qtconsole) calls "socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2]" to find a list of IP addresses that point to the machine. On a Linux server that I manage this call is extremely slow (>20s)... which I have trouble understanding as "ip addr show" seems to give the same information nearly instantaneously. Is there anything I can do to make this faster? Can this be a network configuration issue (I am behind a router)?

This issue is independent of IPython:

$ time python -c 'import socket; print(socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2])' 
['192.168.0.102']
python -c   0.07s user 0.02s system 0% cpu 28.190 total

Thanks.

Antony

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gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) anntzer.lee@gmail.com - 2013-08-31 17:03 -0700
  Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-31 21:01 -0400
    Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) anntzer.lee@gmail.com - 2013-08-31 21:51 -0700
      Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 23:06 -0600
        Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) anntzer.lee@gmail.com - 2013-09-01 10:13 -0700
      Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-01 06:57 -0400
  Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-01 21:37 +1000
    Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) anntzer.lee@gmail.com - 2013-09-01 13:37 -0700
      Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 07:03 +1000
        Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) anntzer.lee@gmail.com - 2013-09-01 22:28 -0700
          Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 20:42 +1000
          Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-02 08:45 -0400
            Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) anntzer.lee@gmail.com - 2013-09-02 10:52 -0700
              Re: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) extremely slow (crossposted from stackoverflow) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 07:12 +1000

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