From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-01-12T05:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with Net::Ftp

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:23:23 +0100, collinsm@surfeu.de wrote:

>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
>

wrong hostname :-

[loser@irc loser]$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'net/ftp'
true
irb(main):002:0> ftp=Net::FTP.new 'ftp.netlab.co.jp'
SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:57:in `open'
        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 (irb):2:in `new'
        from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> exit
[loser@irc loser]$ ping ftp.netlab.co.jp
ping: unknown host ftp.netlab.co.jp
[loser@irc loser]$ ping ftp.netlab.jp
PING parasect.netlab.jp (210.251.121.9) from 151.100.41.12 : 56(84)
bytes of data.