From: Michael Neumann <uu9r@...>
Date: 2002-08-25T00:30:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Using DRb on a Linux box ...

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 11:25:17PM +0900, Dale Martenson wrote:
> When trying to use DRb on my Linux box (SuSE 7.3 running Ruby 1.6.7), I get
> a SocketError indicating that getnameinfo: ai_family not supported.
> 
> According to the "Ruby Developer's Guide", page 337, the fix for this is to
> recompile Ruby with ./configure --enable-ipv6 --with-lookup-order-hack=INET.
> I tried that and it didn't work!!

Does that mean that the same "getnameinfo" error occured after recompiling ruby? 

> Looking at the DRbServer class, I noticed that if the uri parameter to the
> initialize function is nil that the uri is set accordingly ...
> 
>      uri = 'drbuy://:0' unless uri
> 
> shouldn't this be ...
> 
>      uri = 'druby://0.0.0.0:0' unless uri
> 
> It seemed to solve the problem on my system. What is the correct solution?
> Why did recompiling Ruby not work?
> 
> Thanks!!

Regards,

  Michael