I am using socket.gethostbyaddr()
in python3 to resolve IP to hostname.
I need to distinguish between 3 cases:
1) success (IP resolved to hostname)
2) IP address has no DNS record
3) DNS server is temporarily unavailable
I am using simple function:
def host_lookup(addr):
try:
return socket.gethostbyaddr(addr)[0]
except socket.herror:
return None
and then I want to call this function from my main code:
res = host_lookup('45.82.153.76')
if "case 1":
print('success')
else if "case 2":
print('IP address has no DNS record')
else if "case 3":
DNS server is temporarily unavailable
else:
print('unknown error')
When I try socket.gethostbyaddr()
in python console, I get different error codes in each case:
>>> socket.gethostbyaddr('45.82.153.76')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
socket.herror: [Errno 1] Unknown host
and when I deliberatrely make DNS unreachable:
>>> socket.gethostbyaddr('45.82.153.76')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
socket.herror: [Errno 2] Host name lookup failure
So how can I differentiate between these cases in my code above ?
socket.herror is a subclass of OSError that provides access to the numeric error code errno
:
import socket
def host_lookup(addr):
return socket.gethostbyaddr(addr)[0]
try:
res = host_lookup("45.82.153.76")
print('Success: {}'.format(res))
except socket.herror as e:
if e.errno == 1:
print('IP address has no DNS record')
elif e.errno == 2:
print('DNS server is temporarily unavailable')
else:
print('Unknown error')