From: Rob Partington <rjp@...>
Date: 2003-09-29T01:12:32+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:10:03 +0900,
ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote:
>>>>>> "R" == Rob Partington <rjp@frottage.org> writes:
>R> For example, rotten.com can't be looked up using Ruby and isn't "broken".
> svg% ruby -rsocket -e 'p IPSocket.getaddress("rotten.com")'
> "216.218.248.174"

Yes, I already showed that getaddrinfo worked fine.  gethostbyname *doesn't*.

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?FixBrokenWindows sums it up quite well.  That this
is still confusing people *two years later* is insane.