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by tutfbhuf 1994 days ago
TL;DR Node.example.com is an IPv6 adresss.
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utborin 1994 days ago
Because it’s 16 bytes, and in Python 2 strings were just bytes, so any 16-byte string could be interpreted as an IPv6 address.

Doh.

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