Sockets problems on OS X 10.3

[David Heinemeier Hansson]

It seems like it wasn't Webrick to fault for my problems getting the
simple example running, but rather the basic Socket class in Ruby:

irb(main):002:0> a = Socket.getnameinfo(["AF_INET", '23',
'www.ruby-lang.org'])
SocketError: getnameinfo: System error
from (irb):2:in `getnameinfo'
from (irb):2

I'm kinda lost on how to get further from the very generic "System
error" message. Anyone got a clue on where to find a more fulfilling
error description for something like this?

 

[Richard Kilmer]

Well, i found a way to get webrick to work...its to do this before you
start it up:

Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = true

There is definitely a problem on OS X with getaddrinfo, and perhaps
getnameinfo...its been reported in several places including...

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/84909

Best,

Rich