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By looking more into this problem, I found that several 
development groups have reported the exact same problem 
with hpux 11.11. The fix for them was to install DNS patch 
PHNE_27796 along with other patches. However, these patch 
did not fix my problem. As a workaround, I commented out 
HAVE_GETADDRINFO in pyconfig.h. This allowed getaddrinfo 
from python distribution to take place as oppose to the 
broken one from HP. This workaround fixed the problem. I'm 
closing this bug as it's apparently not in python nor python 
can fix it.