From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2006-10-06T16:11:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Problem with sockets in Ruby 1.8.5 Hi, In message "Re: Problem with sockets in Ruby 1.8.5" on Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:17:18 +0900, "Dido Sevilla" writes: |this problem, and it turns out to be a Socket::getaddrinfo call: | |$ ruby -ve 'require "socket"; Socket::getaddrinfo(nil, 12345, |Socket::AF_UNSPEC, Socket::SOCK_STREAM, 0, Socket::AI_PASSIVE)' |ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-linux] |-e:1:in `getaddrinfo': getnameinfo: ai_family not supported (SocketError) | from -e:1 My 1.8.5 does not raise any error on Debian sid. That might be caused by configure options. Can you show us your configure options? matz.