From: ts Date: 2001-09-07T17:46:28+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:20974] Re: Sockets on OpenBSD >>>>> "J" == Jason DiCioccio writes: J> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:507:in `new': getaddrinfo: name or = J> service is not known (SocketError) [...] J> work. I'm not sure if it's actually failing on getaddrinfo(3) however ther= J> e is J> a manpage for it on openbsd at least ;).. I am running OpenBSD/i386 2.6. I know nothing about OpenBSD but there are some known problems on 2.6 with getaddrinfo(3) See for example : http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2000-08/msg00108.html Guy Decoux