From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2006-09-06T21:50:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Total newbie, but I think I found a bug in Socket?

On 9/6/06, Arnaud Bergeron <abergeron@gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is that it is paking an IPV6 adress for in the struct.
> Using a litteral '127.0.0.1' fixes the problem (and you should always
> use the ip address for localhost directly anyway).
>
> Why does this happens only on OS X?  Having not seen the linux box you
> tried this on, I can only guess.  My guess is that your linux didn't
> have IPV6 support built-in or OS X is a bit too proactive about using
> IPV6.
>
> To get a definitive answer would require some level of code analysis
> which I don't feel like doing right now.  If you want to, look at the
> socket.c file in the ruby source distribution.
>

I would add this is not ruby specific, ssh did this to me on OS X as
well. I was not able to get port forwarding unless I specified
127.0.0.1 instead of localhost.

Not sure what version of OS X it was, though.

Thanks

Michal