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a possible fix for 2.5 is:
morrowc@tweezer:/tmp$ diff -U3 nntplib.py.orig nntplib.py
--- nntplib.py.orig 2008年12月30日 01:06:14.000000000 -0500
+++ nntplib.py 2008年12月30日 01:07:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -109,8 +109,19 @@
 """
 self.host = host
 self.port = port
- self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
- self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
+ msg = "getaddrinfo returns an empty list"
+ for res in socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port, 0, 
socket.SOCK_STREAM):
+ af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
+ sock = None
+ try:
+ self.sock = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto)
+ self.sock.connect(sa)
+
+ except error, msg:
+ if self.sock is not None:
+ self.sock.close()
+ raise NNTPError, msg
+
 self.file = self.sock.makefile('rb')
 self.debugging = 0
 self.welcome = self.getresp()
I'll open a bug against 2.5 now with this.