From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-09-29T12:13:08+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties

Hi,

In message "Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties"
    on 03/09/29, Peter <Peter.Vanbroekhoven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:

|[peterv@merlin] ruby -rsocket -e 'Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup=false;p TCPSocket.gethostbyname("noblepack.com")'
|-e:1:in `gethostbyname': host not found (SocketError)
|        from -e:1

|So it's definitely not Win32 specific. Also I would have stopped reverse
|lookup by setting Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = true, but either way it
|doesn't help...

Thank you for the important information.  So there's something
different from your environment from mine, that makes lookup fail.
Could you tell me how your ruby (and socket extension) compiled?
By yourself, or installed from package?

							matz.