From: GOTO Kentaro Date: 2002-09-08T21:16:27+09:00 Subject: Re: 1.7.3 net library crud At Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:19:51 +0900, Tom Sawyer wrote: > FYI- went back to Ruby 1.6.7 and TCP libs are now working fine, but > WEBrick broke! :( > > webrick/server.rb:54:in 'getaddrinfo': getnameinfo: ai_family not > supported (SocketError) Which version of Ruby and WEBrick are you using? In earlier version of WEBrick sample/httpd.rb use :BindAddress => nil. It is known that :BindAddress => nil gives the error above in some versions of linux box. See also: http://www.notwork.org/ipr/webrick/webricken/0/86.html -- Gotoken