From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...>
Date: 2002-08-30T02:53:13+09:00
Subject: Re: gethostbyname() requires reverse lookup to work?

ts wrote:
> >>>>> "P" == Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
> 
> P> I am mistaken).  Why doesn't Ruby call gethostbyname() or
> 
> pigeon% less socket.c
> [...]
> 
> /*
>  * NOTE: using gethostbyname() against AF_INET6 is a bad idea, as it
>  * does not initialize sin_flowinfo nor sin_scope_id properly.
>  */
> 
> [...]
> pigeon%

Is this the reason why Ruby needs an /etc/hosts with

<ip>    <name>

data to be able to connect? Can't this be solved somehow?

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