From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-09-09T03:22:39+09:00
Subject: Re: getnameinfo: ai_family not supported (SocketError)

On Sep 7, 2006, at 7:04 AM, A. S. Bradbury wrote:

>> 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.

I suspect it is an issue on the gentoo side, as far as I can tell,  
getaddrinfo should not fail when given AF_UNSPEC.  My IPv4 only  
machine (FreeBSD 4) behaves this way.

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