From: Magnus Hjelmblom <mbm@...>
Date: 2010-03-09T04:55:31+09:00
Subject: Re: All attempts to install gems hang

Bret Weinraub wrote:
> Basically this Ubuntu instance was running in Virtual Box on a Win7 
> machine.  Now virtual box (like a lot of virtualization software) 
> generally defaults to NAT (network address translation) for network 
> connectivity.
> 
> Switching to "Bridged" on the interface pretty much cleared up the 
> problem; even though heavy network users like "apt-get" functioned just 
> fine.  Whatever flakiness exists in the network only manifested itself 
> with "gem install".  Bridged gives you a real address on your network, 
> instead of your packets being rewritten by the "host" machine.
> 
> I've seen of this with some VPN software; just will not function over a 
> NAT-ed interface.  Switch to bridged, and its all good.
> 
> Probably should be a bug report for rubygems; it won't run off a NAT-ed 
> VM.

So, for me (and my students) who can't switch to bridged due to the 
university's security policies, there basically is no solution? Wow. 
This is killing me, new troubles every time I give this course. I 
seriously must reconsider using Rails.

I suppose I could use aptitude to get an older Rails version, and do a 
'gem freeze' for the application instead of upgrading Rails on the 
server?
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