From: "obrien.andrew@..." <obrien.andrew@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T05:00:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Bonjour and Socket::getaddrinfo

Hi Gary,

What was the value of your "host" variable in that line?  "radar" or
"radar.local"?

I can get mine to work if I do Socket::getaddrinfo("monkeydrome.local",
nil), but not with just "monkeydrome" (which is how Socket::gethostname
returns it).

gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2006, at 3:05 PM, obrien.andrew@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I was having a problem with DRb coming from Socket::getaddrinfo not
> > finding an address for the name returned by Socket::gethostname.  I'm
> > running Mac OS 10.4 and Ruby 1.8.  Replicating line 837 in drb.rb in
> > irb gave me this:
>
> Strange.  This worked just fine for me (Mac OS X 10.4.7, Ruby 1.8.5).
>
> Here is what I get calling getaddrinfo without the extra params:
>
> irb(main):008:0* info = Socket::getaddrinfo(host, nil)
> => [["AF_INET6", 0, "radar.local", "fe80::203:93ff:fe96:4cb4%en0",
> 30, 2, 17], ["AF_INET6", 0, "radar.local", "fe80::203:93ff:fe96:4cb4%
> en0", 30, 1, 6], ["AF_INET", 0, "10.0.1.2", "10.0.1.2", 2, 2, 17],
> ["AF_INET", 0, "10.0.1.2", "10.0.1.2", 2, 1, 6]]
> irb(main):009:0> info = Socket::getaddrinfo('localhost', nil)
> => [["AF_INET6", 0, "localhost", "::1", 30, 2, 17], ["AF_INET6", 0,
> "localhost", "::1", 30, 1, 6], ["AF_INET", 0, "localhost",
> "127.0.0.1", 2, 2, 17], ["AF_INET", 0, "localhost", "127.0.0.1", 2,
> 1, 6]]
> 
> Gary Wright