Repeated host lookups failing in urllib2

Question

I have code which issues many HTTP GET requests using Python\'s urllib2, in several threads, writing the responses into files (one per thread).
During execution, it look

Answer 1

This is not a Python problem, on Linux systems make sure nscd (Name Service Cache Daemon) is actually running.

UPDATE: And looking at your code you are never calling page.close() hence leaking sockets.