From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-04T08:27:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket::gethostbyname()

Hi,

In message "Re: Socket::gethostbyname()"
    on Sun, 3 Oct 2004 15:04:56 +0900, CarlosRivera <CarlosRivera@badnamefornospam.to> writes:
|
|I have done the following:
|
|irb(main):103:0> response = Socket::gethostbyname('www.ebay.com')
|=> ["pages.ebay.com", [], 2, 
|"\020\002\000\000B\207\300X\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000", 
|"\020\002\000\000B\207\320X\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000", 
|"\020\002\000\000B\207\320e\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000", 
|"\020\002\000\000B\207\300W\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000"]
|irb(main):104:0>
|
|What exactly are the 4 entries that are after the 2 in the array?  From 
|looking at the man page for gethostbyname(), it should return something 
|resembling:

How about using TCPSocket::gethostbyname instead?

							matz.