Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Chapter 3: Socket Programming

1. Which method of the sockets module allows a domain name to be obtained from an IP address?

With the gethostbyaddr(address) method, we can obtain a domain name from an IP address.

2. Which method of the socket module allows a server socket to accept requests from a client socket from another host?

socket.accept() is used to accept the connection from the client. This method returns two values: client_socket and client_address, where client_socket is a new socket object used to send and receive data over the connection.

3. Which method of the socket module allows the sending of data to a given address?

socket.sendto(data, address) is used to send data to a given address.

4. Which method of the socket module ...