From: ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:21:28 +0000 (+0400)
Subject: irc: catch exception in gethostbyname
X-Git-Url: https://git.novaco.in/?p=electrum-server.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=a5ee6ee874d534225b59bf2d5efc3c7785c126ab

irc: catch exception in gethostbyname
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diff --git a/backends/irc/__init__.py b/backends/irc/__init__.py
index 0e7b757..1efa97e 100644
--- a/backends/irc/__init__.py
+++ b/backends/irc/__init__.py
@@ -96,7 +96,11 @@ class IrcThread(threading.Thread):
                     elif '352' in line:  # answer to /who
                         # warning: this is a horrible hack which apparently works
                         k = line.index('352')
-                        ip = socket.gethostbyname(line[k+4])
+                        try:
+                            ip = socket.gethostbyname(line[k+4])
+                        except:
+                            print_log("gethostbyname error", line[k+4])
+                            continue
                         name = line[k+6]
                         host = line[k+9]
                         ports = line[k+10:]