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