id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,branch,branch_author,launchpad_bug
3998,Names module DNS getHostByName error on certain sites,pythonologist,,"With the attached program I get this output:


{{{
D:\software\Twisted-trunk\twisted\names\dns.py:1662: DeprecationWarning: Please only pass IPs to write(), not hostnames
  self.transport.write(message.toStr(), address)
result: [Failure instance: Traceback: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stopListening'
D:\software\Twisted-trunk\twisted\internet\udp.py:126:doRead
D:\software\Twisted-trunk\twisted\names\dns.py:1693:datagramReceived
D:\software\Twisted-trunk\twisted\internet\defer.py:238:callback
D:\software\Twisted-trunk\twisted\internet\defer.py:307:_startRunCallbacks
--- <exception caught here> ---
D:\software\Twisted-trunk\twisted\internet\defer.py:323:_runCallbacks
D:\software\Twisted-trunk\twisted\names\common.py:206:<lambda>
]
}}}


Certain domain names appear to return a particular set of DNS records requiring recursion, which does not appear to work properly: one example is www.bbc.co.uk - note that plain bbc.co.uk works fine. Possibly related to #2850.",regression,closed,normal,,names,fixed,,smcq exarkun jesstess Scramblejams,branches/names-no-transport-3998,therve,