From: "Aleksi Niemelä" Date: 2000-07-03T19:20:44+02:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:03770] Re: Socket error reporting > | -e:1:in `open': Unknown error (SocketError) > | from -e:1 > > Why `Unknown error'? I didn't dive into the problem more than that and I don't know what getaddrinfo should be returning but in the end it all boils down to the fact the machine is without DNS and net. It's always possible there're few bugs lurking on the path, but I guess I already know where I'll end up. - Aleksi