From: Markus Schirp <mbj@...>
Date: 2010-08-03T02:10:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Pingecho, causing SocketError.

For me it seems that your failing computer is unable to resolv the ip 
address of your target host. DNS misconfiguration.

Try to lookup the host with your operating systems tools like nslookup, 
dig, od dnsip.

--

Markus

On 08/02/2010 07:03 PM, Walle Wallen wrote:
> I have a strange problem. The script posted at the end off this post is
> not working properly on one of my computers. If I run it alone, it works
> just fine, but not inside one of my scripts. The script works fine on
> all other computers that I have tested. Do anyone now what could be
> causing this.
>
> //Walle
>
> It raises the following exception:
> "Exception `SocketError' at ./Handlers/ServerStatusHandler.rb:125 -
> getaddrinfo: Name or service not known"'
>
> The script:
> def pingecho(host, timeout=5, service="echo")
>      begin
>        timeout(timeout) do
>    s = TCPSocket.new(host, service)
>    s.close
>        end
>      rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED
>        return true
>      rescue Timeout::Error, StandardError
>        return false
>      end
>      return true
>    end