[ruby-talk:5715] Help: sockets broken

I just compiled ruby 1.6.1 on an openbsd 2.6 machine(x86).

When I try to run a script that works fine on my linux machine, I get:

/usr/local/encap/ruby-1.6.1/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:439:in `new': getaddrinfo: name or service is not known (SocketError)
        from /usr/local/encap/ruby-1.6.1/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:439:in `initialize'
        from /usr/local/encap/ruby-1.6.1/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:210:in `new'
        from /usr/local/encap/ruby-1.6.1/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:210:in `connect'
        from /usr/local/encap/ruby-1.6.1/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:171:in `start'
       from test.rby:3


The offending code is:

require 'net/http'
page = Net::HTTP.new('127.0.0.1')
page.start()

Is there something wrong with my build?  Or is my code bad, and the ruby build
on my linux machine more forgiving?

Thanks

-jason