From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T08:18:13+09:00
Subject: Re: "No address associated with nodename"

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Once again my ignorance of all things networky bite me. Can anybody 
> explain what this message might mean?
> 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:350:in `gethostbyname': getaddrinfo: 
> No address associated with nodename (SocketError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:350:in `getaddress'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:373:in `login'
> 

irb(main):004:0> Socket.gethostbyname "www.google.com"
=> ["www.l.google.com", ["www.google.com"], 2, "\330\357;g", 
"\330\357;h", "\330\357;c", "\330\357;\223"]
irb(main):005:0> Socket.gethostbyname "www.go42ogle.com"
SocketError: getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename
         from (irb):5:in `gethostbyname'
         from (irb):5

Looks to me like you're trying to connect to a hostname that doesn't 
resolve to an actual IP address.

-- 
Alex