From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-09-26T22:27:42+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties

ts [mailto:decoux@moulon.inra.fr] wrote:

> N> Does anyone know how to get this to work?
> 
>  Ask them to correctly register the address, it's a .COM no ?

Unfortunately any conceivable host could be thrown at the system I'm working
on, so that's not really an option.


> svg% host noblepack.com
> noblepack.com has address 205.178.141.161
> svg% 
> 
> svg% host 205.178.141.161
> Host 161.141.178.205.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> svg% 

So how come my browser can find it? Can I duplicate in Ruby whatever it is
the browser's doing to get to find the host?

Thanks,


Nathaniel

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