On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, WATANABE Hirofumi wrote: > Clemens Wyss <wys / helbling.ch> writes: > > :The problem (question) remains: > :Why does dnsquery and ruby-TCPSocket(.open(...)) have problems with this > :kinda resolv.conf content. > > Try to add this in /etc/hosts. > > ::1 localhost This "::1" one worked for me. Many thanks eban. Any short explanation or pointers to wisdom? - Aleksi