getaddrinfo failed what does that mean

Question

I am getting this error when launching the hello world sample:

 File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 224, in meth
    return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)   gaierror: [Errno 11004]
getaddrinfo failed

This is from where I launched it: http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/.

Can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

The problem is the hostname. If it doesn't work there, it's not going to work in the Bottle example.

import socket
socket.getaddrinfo('localhost', 8080)

You can try '127.0.0.1' instead of 'localhost' in case that's the problem. I hope this helps.