bug #1257988: don't bail out on gethostbyname(gethostname()) failure

2026-02-12 12:57:15 -08:00 · 2006-03-31 19:34:13 +00:00
parent b88e19c1fc
commit dcdfd22bb4
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/Lib/smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/smtplib.py
@@ -255,7 +255,11 @@ class SMTP:
                self.local_hostname = fqdn
            else:
                # We can't find an fqdn hostname, so use a domain literal
-                addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
+                addr = '127.0.0.1'
+                try:
+                    addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
+                except socket.gaierror:
+                    pass
                self.local_hostname = '[%s]' % addr

    def set_debuglevel(self, debuglevel):