[openstack-dev] Thoughts on an alternative DNS library for python?

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Tue Mar 26 20:16:35 UTC 2013


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/26/2013 03:54 AM, Michael Still wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm hoping someone has a pointer to a DNS library which works well and
>> isn't dnspython. Specifically dnspython doesn't work for me because it
>> monkey patches getaddrinfo() with a call that isn't IPv6 aware, which
>> breaks nova unit tests.
>
> Have you filed a bug against dnspython for this?  Even if we eventually
> moved to something else, it would be good community karma to document
> the problems we had with it.

Not yet. I need to play a little more I think. I suspect the silence
here and my failure to find another contender while googling indicate
that it might be time to either get the bug fixed or work around it.

Michael



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