From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T00:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: address family for hostname not supported

On May 4, 8:59 am, Dax Huiberts <dax.huibe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to do a capistrano deployment yesterday when it suddenly didn't
> want to
> work anymore.
> It says "address family for hostname not supported". After a lot of
> searching and googling and source code lookup I came to the following:
> On my development machine @ work (Windows 2003) there is a problem with
> the low level Socket.getnameinfo() call.
> When I try to do a
> Socket.getnameinfo(['AF_INET', '22', 'beeplet.com'])
> I get the above exception. but a
> Socket.getnameinfo(['AF_INET', '23', 'beeplet.com'])
> it works like a charm. It doesn't have anything to do
> with what domain I use, it only happens when I use port 22 (ssh) in the
> method call. Everything worked fine 2 days ago and now, suddenly, it
> bails on me.
> Doing the above method call from my development machine @ home (Ubuntu)
> it all works just fine.
>
> I don't know how and why I get this exception and haven't been able to
> find a sollution either. Maybe somebody knows something more on this
> topic?

Are you using the one click installer? Perhaps this issue (# 9438) is
related:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=9438&group_id=167&atid=715

Regards,

Dan