From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-09-26T10:39:30+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties

Peter [mailto:Peter.Vanbroekhoven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be] wrote:

> So the lookup 
> process possibly needs to follow a chain of DNS servers, and 
> I'm sure this is done by all browsers, but maybe not by ruby 
> (although I'd expect that to be done by the OS or its libraries...)

Hmmmm... I thought TCPSocket.gethostbyname was basically a direct wrapper
for the gethostbyname C library function. It really surprises me that it
doesn't automatically follow the DNS servers itself.

Does anyone know how to get this to work? Even if I have to add more of my
own code, I need to be able to check if a given hostname is valid or not.

Thanks,


Nathaniel

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