From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2012-10-02T01:10:46+09:00
Subject: Re: DRB not connecting from two diffrent computers

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:47 PM, ajay paswan <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi I am following:
> http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/introduction.html
>
> the first program of manipulating array:
> if I run server on a computer in LAN:
> then I get it as:
> druby://myMachine:54185
>
> but when I run client as on a diffrent computer:
> ruby client.rb druby://myMachine:54185
>
> it gives error:
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:736:in `open': druby://myMachine:54185 -
> #<SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known>
> (DRb::DRbConnError)

Probably that other computer cannot resolve "myMachine". Try using the IP.

Jesus.