From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T08:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: one click installer + gems

On 2/4/06, pihentagy@gmail.com <pihentagy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Additional problems:
>
> cannot ping gems.rubyforge.org
>
> The test script:
> require 'socket'
>
> hostname = ARGV[0]
> puts "Making socket to #{hostname}"
> sock = TCPSocket.new(hostname, 80)
> mesg = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: #{hostname}\r\n\r\n"
> puts "writing to socket #{hostname}: " + mesg
> sock.write mesg
> puts "Wow, no hang!"
>
> hangs on www.google.com
>
> Anyway, my internet connection seems to be ok...

How can you say your internet connection is ok when you can't get to
google? I can get to google and I can ping gems.rubyforge.org -- there
is defintiely something wrong with your internet connection.

Curt