From: CarlosRivera <CarlosRivera@...>
Date: 2004-10-04T05:19:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket::gethostbyname()

I never would have guessed to have unpacked.  Is there a good 
explanation of this somewhere?  Also, during the unpack, what is the 
first element supposed to represent?

For a reference, I am reading the Socket class at:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/

However, there seems to be no documentation on the method return types. 
  Is something wrong with my browser?  I can see detailed information 
about Net::HTTP.get().

ts wrote:
>>>>>>"C" == CarlosRivera  <CarlosRivera@badnamefornospam.to> writes:
> 
> 
> C> [~]host www.ebay.com
> C> www.ebay.com is an alias for pages.ebay.com.
> C> pages.ebay.com has address 66.135.208.101
> C> pages.ebay.com has address 66.135.192.87
> C> pages.ebay.com has address 66.135.192.88
> C> pages.ebay.com has address 66.135.208.88
> C> [~]
> 
> svg% ruby -rsocket
> Socket::gethostbyname("www.ebay.com")[3..-1].each do |ali|
>    p Socket.unpack_sockaddr_in(ali)
> end
> ^D
> [0, "66.135.192.87"]
> [0, "66.135.192.88"]
> [0, "66.135.208.88"]
> [0, "66.135.208.101"]
> svg% 
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
>