bug #1462706: guard against host not having FQDN hostname

diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index c3afae64940b970a9c4afafbbbb4817d38133875..21f916ce568a25cfe65018d07e5ece4d35d19b7c 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -1130,8 +1130,11 @@ class FileHandler(BaseHandler):
     names = None
     def get_names(self):
         if FileHandler.names is None:
-            FileHandler.names = (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'),
-                                 socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()))
+            try:
+                FileHandler.names = (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'),
+                                    socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()))
+            except socket.gaierror:
+                FileHandler.names = (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'),)
         return FileHandler.names
 
     # not entirely sure what the rules are here