Message119260
> Sorry, I didn't mean how Windows constructs the result for the
> "A" interface - I was talking about Python code being able to map
> the result from the Unicode interface to the form used in the
> protocol (e.g. DNS). I believe the proposal is to use the DNS
> name
I disagree with the proposal - it should return whatever
name gethostname from winsock.dll returns (which I expect
to be the netbios name).
> so since the DNS is byte oriented, I would have thought
> that the Unicode "DNS name" result would always have a bytes
> equivalent that the DNS resolver code would use - perhaps its
> UTF-8 encoding?
No no no. When Microsoft calls it the DNS name, they don't actually
mean that it has to do anything with DNS. In particular, it's not
byte-oriented. |
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2010-10-21 05:09:55 | loewis | set | recipients:
+ loewis, lemburg, vstinner, baikie, ezio.melotti, jesterKing |
2010-10-21 05:09:52 | loewis | link | issue9377 messages |
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