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> I'm having some problems implementing some things though. For > example, due to DNS weirdness in my neck of the woods, I have times > where if I try to resolve "gopher.quux.org", it will take 3 minutes > and then fail. Obviously I want a way to interrupt gethostbyname, but > according to python folk that I've talked to, there isn't a clean way

I would *highly* recommend adns (there is a python adns module, BTW). Completely asynchronous and very stable. I've used it for a number of projects and am each time "surprised" that it does what it is supposed to do without difficulty. "It just works".

-- "We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there." -- Dana Gould

Jon Nelson jnelson@boa.org