From: Jim Freeze Date: 2003-09-27T01:11:19+09:00 Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties Sorry to barge in on your thread, but the topic reminded of a question that you guys probably know the answer to: How do I get the full name of the machine that I am on? My current method involves ifconfig -a to get the IP and nslookup to get the name. Is there a ruby -e one liner to do this? (Please forgive me if this is a stupid question.) -- Jim Freeze ---------- "The Computer made me do it."