Regular expression to match DNS hostname or IP Address?

Question

Does anyone have a regular expression handy that will match any legal DNS hostname or IP address?

It\'s easy to write one that works 95% of the time, but I\'m hoping

Answer 1

This works for valid IP addresses:

regex = '^([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-5][0-5])[.]([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-5][0-5])[.]([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-5][0-5])[.]([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[1][0-9][0-9]|[2][0-5][0-5])$'