From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-02T09:22:45-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01687] Re: gethostbyname?

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

> gethostbyname seems to be a method of IPSocket and Socket only.
> What is the correct way to invoke it in ruby?  Everything I have tried 
> tells me thee is no data for the machine I am on, although nslookup
> shows its existence correctly.

There's TCPSocket.gethostbyname() and TCPSocket.getaddress().

Dave