From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-09-23T05:02:31+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems Problem

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Fabian Streitel
<karottenreibe@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'd say it's a problem with your PC
>
> Exception `Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError' at
>>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:150 -
>> SocketError: get
>> addrinfo: no address associated with hostname.
>> (http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
>>
>
> looks like it can't connect to the server -- maybe some firewall running?

That's what it looks like to me.

I'd suggest bringing up a windows command window and try to

ping gems.rubyforge.org

to test basic network things like dns resolution, which is what the
"no address" message seems to be pointing to.

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