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

dcdfd22b · Georg Brandl · b88e19c1 · dcdfd22b
Commit dcdfd22b authored Mar 31, 2006 by Georg Brandl
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--- 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):