Invoking parallel threads of a nslookup command in python

Question

I've written below python script just to invoke parallel threads of a command nslookup linux-host01 dns-server, i'm Just trying to flood the DNS Server dns-server with multiple number of queries in parallel way.

As an argument to this script i'm passing a hostlist file example linux-host01 , linux-host02 etc.

To achieve this i'm using threading module with the below code and this works fine, However, i'm using the the threading first time hence would like to know if this can be simplified of enhanced further.

import os
import threading
from sys import argv, exit


lock = threading.Lock()

hostfile = argv[1]

lst = []
with open(hostfile, 'r') as frb:
    for line in frb:
        lst.append(line.strip("\n"))

threads = []
thread_count = len(lst)

def pop_queue():
    host = None
    lock.acquire()
    if lst:
        host = lst.pop()
        lock.release()
    return host

def dequeue():
    while len(lst) != 0:
        host = pop_queue()
        if not host:
            return None
        else:
            dolookup(host)

def dolookup(name):
    while True:
        os.system("/usr/bin/nslookup %s dns-test01" %name)

for i in range(thread_count):
    t = threading.Thread(target=dequeue)
    t.start()
    print "started thread %s" %i
    threads.append(t)

[t.join() for t in threads]

Appreciate any help on this.