From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-03-02T16:50:51+00:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01690] Re: gethostbyname?

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, ts wrote:

> > thishost = `hostname`
> 
>  Try with 
> 
>  thishost = `hostname`.chomp

That works, but I need the other methods to work because I 
cannot get an IP address easily with backticks.  I need the
IP address to mess about with sockets from what I can see.
Ok, I could call nslookup and munge the output, but it will be 
less efficient, and these other things ought to work.

> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
	Hugh
	hgs@dmu.ac.uk