From: "Aleksi Niemelä" Date: 2001-02-21T10:53:17+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:11203] Re: THE solution to: TCPSocket.open() lasts 2 minutes On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, WATANABE Hirofumi wrote: > Clemens Wyss writes: > > :The problem (question) remains: > :Why does dnsquery and ruby-TCPSocket(.open(...)) have problems with this > :kinda resolv.conf content. > > Try to add this in /etc/hosts. > > ::1 localhost This "::1" one worked for me. Many thanks eban. Any short explanation or pointers to wisdom? - Aleksi