Merge pull request #70 from matrix-org/exception-fixes

Exception fixes

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/federation_client.py b/scripts/federation_client.py

index 3139c61761..ea62dceb36 100644
--- a/scripts/federation_client.py
+++ b/scripts/federation_client.py
@@ -97,8 +97,11 @@ def lookup(destination, path):
     if ":" in destination:
         return "https://%s%s" % (destination, path)
     else:
-        srv = srvlookup.lookup("matrix", "tcp", destination)[0]
-        return "https://%s:%d%s" % (srv.host, srv.port, path)
+        try:
+            srv = srvlookup.lookup("matrix", "tcp", destination)[0]
+            return "https://%s:%d%s" % (srv.host, srv.port, path)
+        except:
+            return "https://%s:%d%s" % (destination, 8448, path)
 
 def get_json(origin_name, origin_key, destination, path):
     request_json = {