From: collinsm@...
Date: 2003-01-12T05:44:57+09:00
Subject: Problem with Net::Ftp

Hi,

I've just been trying out the Net::Ftp mudule on a Linux system (Caldera 
OpenDesktop 3.1). I'm using the following example with Ruby 1.6.8

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'net/ftp'


ftp = Net::FTP.new('ftp.netlab.co.jp')
ftp.login
files = ftp.chdir('pub/lang/ruby/contrib')
files = ftp.list('n*')
ftp.getbinaryfile('nif.rb-0.91.gz', 'nif.gz', 1024)
ftp.close


I'm getting the following error:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:57:in `open': getaddrinfo: Name or 
service not known
(SocketError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:57:in `open_socket'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:67:in `connect'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:67:in `mon_synchronize'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:67:in `connect'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:45:in `initialize'
        from ./tst_ftp.rb:5:in `new'
        from ./tst_ftp.rb:5


This is a completely new installation of Ruby. 

Thanks for any tips,

Martin.