From: Tom Reilly <w3gat@...>
Date: 2005-02-25T10:40:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP

Try and do something similar with a socket, see if that behaves the same 
way.

I tried as suggested using the following program from the ruby book
#____________________________________________________________
require 'socket'

$port = 4321

sThread = Thread.start do     # run server in a thread
   server = UDPSocket.open
   server.bind(nil, $port)
   2.times { p server.recvfrom(64) }
end


# Connection based client
sock = UDPSocket.open
sock.connect('localhost', $port)
sock.send("connection-based", 0)
sThread.join

# Ad-hoc client
UDPSocket.open.send("ad hoc", 0, 'localhost', $port)
#____________________________________________________________

The program responds with:
["connection-based", ["AF_INET", 1133, "systemax", "127.0.0.1"]]
then hangs forever.

No exceptions.

Again the program responds as expected on the Dell

It would seem there is a problem in socket.so?
Ideas? THanks.