From: "A. S. Bradbury" <asbradbury@...>
Date: 2006-09-07T23:04:20+09:00
Subject: Re: getnameinfo: ai_family not supported (SocketError)

On Monday 04 September 2006 03:27, Eric Hodel wrote:
> Can you try:
>
> require 'socket'
>
> p Socket.getaddrinfo(nil, 80, Socket::AF_UNSPEC,
>                       Socket::SOCK_STREAM, 0, Socket::AI_PASSIVE)
>
> On an IPv6 capable machine I get:
>
> [["AF_INET6", 80, "::", "::", 30, 1, 6], ["AF_INET", 80, "0.0.0.0",
> "0.0.0.0", 2, 1, 6]]
>
> and on an IPv4 only machine I get:
>
> [["AF_INET", 80, "0.0.0.0", "0.0.0.0", 2, 1, 6]]

On my ipv4 machine I get:
SocketError: getnameinfo: ai_family not supported
        from (irb):4:in `getaddrinfo'
        from (irb):4

On the ipv4 machine with gentoo's ebuild of ruby compiled with the ipv6 USE 
flag I get similar output to yours. I wonder if this is something broken on 
my systems, a ruby issue, or a packaging issue.

Alex