From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2003-09-29T00:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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?

Out of curiosity, I just tried the above, on my Win2k laptop, running 
/\ndy's 1.8 build:

C:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32]

C:\>  ruby -r socket -e 'p TCPSocket.gethostbyname("noblepack.com")'
-e:1:in `gethostbyname': host not found (SocketError)
         from -e:1

However, I can ping that location just fine.

I then tried a different address:

C:\>  ruby -r socket -e 'p TCPSocket.gethostbyname("jamesbritt.com")'
["amsnac3.com", [], 2, "66.246.52.127"]



James Britt