Error : socket.gaierror: [Errno -5] No address associated with hostname

[SHINTO PETER]

socket.gaierror: [Errno -5] No address associated with hostname

# server.py
import socket
import time
# create a socket object
serversocket = socket.socket( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
# get local machine name
host = socket.gethostname()
port = 9999
# bind to the port
serversocket.bind((host, port))
# queue up to 5 requests
serversocket.listen(5)
while True:
    # establish a connection
    clientsocket,addr = serversocket.accept()
    print("Got a connection from %s" % str(addr))
    currentTime = time.ctime(time.time()) + "\r\n"
    clientsocket.send(currentTime.encode('ascii'))
    clientsocket.close()

[François Schiettecatte]

What is the value of host?

François

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[SHINTO PETER]

i just want to give host as localhost / 127.0.0.1

[François Schiettecatte]

Well then why do you get it from socket.gethostname() ? Just set it to ‘localhost’.

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[SHINTO PETER]

socket.gethostname()

Return a string containing the hostname of the machine where the Python interpreter is currently executing ie in python documentation

so ie used gethostname()

[François Schiettecatte]

I know what socket.gethostname() does, we still dont know what it returns on your setup. And the exception you get is about the host name. Note that a host can have multiple host names and socket.gethostname() only returns one, which may not be the one you want to use. By default a machine will have the host name ‘localhost’ which is a loopback, but it may have others if it is part of a network.

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[SHINTO PETER]

Thank you François. i got it. i will give gethostbyaddr() or gethostbyname()

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