From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-02-20T00:47:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11109] Re: TCPSocket.open() lasts 2 minutes (was: rwiki *hangs* in send())

wys@helbling.ch (Clemens Wyss) writes:

> wys@helbling.ch (Clemens Wyss) wrote in <Xns904DA13B7A4A5wyshelblingch@
> 130.133.1.4>:
> 
> >My (easy) testscript looks like this: 
> >  require 'socket'
> >  soc = TCPSocket.open("localhost", 8470)
> >  soc.close()
> >
> ...on the other hand "127.0.0.1" (instead of "localhost") finishes 
> immediately.

It sounds like you system is trying to resolve 'localhost' using DNS,
rather that the hosts file. What happens if you enter

   ping localhost

at the command line?

If this also takes a long time, check your file /etc/host.conf
contains something like

  order hosts bind


Regards


Dave