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IPv6 hostname resolution #46

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GhostofGoes opened this issue May 9, 2019 · 2 comments
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IPv6 hostname resolution #46

GhostofGoes opened this issue May 9, 2019 · 2 comments
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feature New feature (or addition of new functionality to existing feature) help wanted
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@GhostofGoes
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Currently, hostnames only resolve to IPv4 addresses, as documented in the "Known Issues" section in the README. They should be able to resolve to IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4, and the IPv6 returns handled by the appropriate IPv6 logic in getmac.

The obvious solution is to use socket.getaddrinfo instead of socket.gethostbyname to resolve a hostname to an IP address, it just needs to be implemented and tested.
@GhostofGoes GhostofGoes added this to the Stable Release (1.0) milestone May 9, 2019
@stuartmccoll
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Hi 👋.

I'd like to pick this up, if that's okay?

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Sure, go for it :)

@GhostofGoes GhostofGoes added the feature New feature (or addition of new functionality to existing feature) label Oct 29, 2021
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