From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-09-25T13:22:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21655] Re: IPSocket#addr

"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

>   u = UDPSocket.new
>   u.bind('localhost', 8765)
>   u.addr � ["AF_INET", 8765, "localhost", "127.0.0.1"]
>   BasicSocket.do_not_reverse_lookup = true
>   u.addr � ["AF_INET", 8765, "127.0.0.1", "127.0.0.1"]
> 
> This is under IPSocket (from which TCPSocket inherits).
> 
> Problem is, it always seems to give me an address, not
> a name.

Is 127.0.0.1 in your DNS? What does

  dig -x 127.0.0.1

do?


Dave