From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-02-21T13:47:18+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:11213] Re: THE solution to: TCPSocket.open() lasts 2 minutes Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:11203] Re: THE solution to: TCPSocket.open() lasts 2 minutes" on 01/02/21, Aleksi Niemel� writes: |> 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? IPv6 transition. matz. p.s. was it short enough?