Commit 10ef3264 authored by Serhiy Storchaka's avatar Serhiy Storchaka

Issue #17293: socket.gethostbyname() can raise an exception of FreeBSD.

parent 34d3abae
......@@ -345,7 +345,10 @@ def _ifconfig_getnode():
def _arp_getnode():
"""Get the hardware address on Unix by running arp."""
import os, socket
ip_addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
try:
ip_addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
except EnvironmentError:
return None
# Try getting the MAC addr from arp based on our IP address (Solaris).
return _find_mac('arp', '-an', [ip_addr], lambda i: -1)
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