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Hi all,

I try to connect to several hosts at once to verify whether a certain
service is running. Now it's quite stupid to connect to one after another,
cause if I do this I'll wait forever if some hosts don't respond (at least
until TCP timeout).

But if I connect to several hosts in parallel and use polling objects I'm
stuck - I don't know how to handle exceptions: are they raised as normal?
If yes, how do I get the correspondig socket object - or file number?
If no, how do I know if a socket timed out, or refused connection, or
something similar?


Thanks for any hints & greetings,

Axel.

Am Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:03:11 +0200 schrieb Axel Bock:

> Hi all,
>
> I try to connect to several hosts at once to verify whether a certain
> [...blorf...]
>

or better still - does someone know how to set the tcp timeout value? THIS
would greatly simplyfy my task


Thanks again & greetings (again),

Axel.

Axel Bock wrote:
>
> I try to connect to several hosts at once to verify whether a certain
> service is running. Now it's quite stupid to connect to one after another,
> cause if I do this I'll wait forever if some hosts don't respond (at least
> until TCP timeout).
>
> But if I connect to several hosts in parallel and use polling objects I'm
> stuck - I don't know how to handle exceptions: are they raised as normal?
> If yes, how do I get the correspondig socket object - or file number?
> If no, how do I know if a socket timed out, or refused connection, or
> something similar?

Check out these pages for some background (especially page four on non-blocking
sockets):

http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/sock1.html

But consider just using Twisted and letting all this stuff be handled
for you... no sense reinventing the wheel in an area that is notoriously
difficult to do right.

-Peter

Am Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:17:02 -0400 schrieb Peter Hansen:

> Check out these pages for some background (especially page four on
> non-blocking sockets):
>
> http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/sock1.html

great link i forgot about select I admit ...

> But consider just using Twisted and letting all this stuff be handled
> for you... no sense reinventing the wheel in an area that is
> notoriously difficult to do right.

hm. twisted. yeah.
I tried it for the udp approach for the same problem, and ended up writing
the stuff by myself - the udp thing in twisted is rather ... twisted
(and I do not consider the documentation/howtos/examples to be useful for
beginners in any way).

for tcp it might be worth a try ... although its really a quite simple
problem and twisted a rather large solution


thanks,

axel.

Axel Bock wrote:

> hm. twisted. yeah.
> I tried it for the udp approach for the same problem, and ended up
> writing
> the stuff by myself - the udp thing in twisted is rather ... twisted
> (and I do not consider the documentation/howtos/examples to be useful for
> beginners in any way).
>
> for tcp it might be worth a try ... although its really a quite simple
> problem and twisted a rather large solution

Perhaps something like Spread is closer to what you need?

http://www.python.org/other/spread/

*Very* easy to get up and running, built for working with UDP, easy to configure
......

Just an alternative suggestion.

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