From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-01-12T08:39:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with Net::Ftp

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:44:57AM +0900, collinsm@surfeu.de wrote:
> 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
...
> ftp = Net::FTP.new('ftp.netlab.co.jp')
...
> I'm getting the following error:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/ftp.rb:57:in `open': getaddrinfo: Name or 
> service not known

I guess that's because the name does not exist in the DNS:

$ nslookup ftp.netlab.co.jp

*** can't find ftp.netlab.co.jp: Non-existent host/domain