From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-12-03T13:48:05-08:00
Subject: Re: Linux protocol.rb and smtp.rb problem

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George Girton (ggirton@mac.com) wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 03, 2003, at 01:11PM, Zach Dennis <zdennis@mktec.c=
om> wrote:
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> >I am moving my ruby program file from my winbox to my linux( redhat 9 ) =
box.
> >I've got ruby 1.8.1 installed on my linux box. However when I run my scr=
ipt
> >the following lines error out:
> >
> >smtp =3D Net::SMTP::new( server )
> >smtp.start( domain , username , password , "cram_md5" )
> >
> >It complains about:
> >
> >/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in 'initialize': getaddrinfo:
> >Name or service not known( SocketError )
> >	from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in 'new'
> >	from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in 'connect'
> >	from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:82:in 'timeout'
> >	etc...etc...etc...
> >
> >It works beautifully on my Windows box. Any ideas?
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> I'm looking forward to the answer to this question, I had the
> same getaddrinfo error on Mac OS 10.3 last month. Except it
> was with the Net ftp object rather than SMPT as in your case.
> Works fine on Windows, and no idea how to debug it. (Debug mode
> shows connection being made ok)

IPv6?

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