From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-09-28T23:26:09+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties

Hi,

In message "TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties"
    on 03/09/26, "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@NOSPAMtalbott.ws> writes:

|I'm trying to use TCPSocket.gethostbyname to verify that a given domain
|actually exists in DNS. For some reason, though, some domains fail to
|resolve that resolve fine using other applications. For instance:
|
|  irb(main):001:0> require 'socket'
|  => true
|  irb(main):002:0> TCPSocket.gethostbyname('noblepack.com')
|  SocketError: host not found
|          from (irb):2:in `gethostbyname'
|          from (irb):2

This works for me:

  ruby -r socket -e 'p TCPSocket.gethostbyname("noblepack.com")'
  ruby 1.8.0 (2003-09-27) [i686-linux]
  ["noblepack.com", [], 2, "205.178.141.161"]

Could you tell us more info?

							matz.