From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-12-21T12:27:49+09:00
Subject: Re: why is gethostbyname in TCPSocket?

On Dec 20, 2006, at 18:00, msoulier wrote:

> Looking for dns support, I found the gethostbyname method as a class
> method of TCPSocket in the socket library.

$ ruby -rsocket -e 'p TCPSocket.ancestors'
[TCPSocket, IPSocket, BasicSocket, IO, File::Constants, Enumerable,  
Object, Kernel]

> Seems like an odd place, considering that gethostbyname is hardly
> specific to TCP protocol alone.
>
> Any idea why it was put there?

It wasn't.

$ ruby -rsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("localhost")'
["localhost", [], 30, "\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000 
\000\000\000\000\001"]

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