From dcdfd22bb411ebf0d58bba135455c4abf2bc9ce1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:34:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bug #1257988: don't bail out on gethostbyname(gethostname()) failure --- Lib/smtplib.py | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/smtplib.py b/Lib/smtplib.py index 71d25fda26..07916cc1b8 100755 --- a/Lib/smtplib.py +++ b/Lib/smtplib.py @@ -255,7 +255,11 @@ class SMTP: self.local_hostname = fqdn else: # We can't find an fqdn hostname, so use a domain literal - addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) + addr = '127.0.0.1' + try: + addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) + except socket.gaierror: + pass self.local_hostname = '[%s]' % addr def set_debuglevel(self, debuglevel): -- 2.40.0