From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-09-29T08:15:00+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties

Hi,

In message "Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties"
    on 03/09/29, James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@seemyemail.com> writes:

|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.

Hmm, might be Win32 specific problem.  Does stopping reverse lookup
make any difference?

  Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = false

							matz.