From: Peter <Peter.Vanbroekhoven@...>
Date: 2003-09-27T02:22:51+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties

>  When I run this, I only get the machine name, not the FQDN of my
>  computer:
> 
>  ruby -e "require 'socket'; puts Socket.gethostbyname(Socket.gethostname)[0]"
>  juno
> 
> 
>  ruby -e "require 'socket'; p Socket.gethostbyname(Socket.gethostname)"
>  ["juno", [], 2, "\235_/A"]

You're right. I tested it on 3 machines, and on 2 it gave the FQDN, on 1
it returned localhost. I had the hostname on that last machine point to
the external IP-address rather than localhost and then I had the same
problem. About the 2 machines it did work on: one is a WinXP machine, the
other is a linux machine at work. Apparently both have something my own 
linux machine has not...

> Is there a way to get the full name?

I'm out of ideas. None of the other calls I tested could get past the
hostname for some weird reason.

Peter