On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, meredith wrote:

> Has anyone written one? If not, is anyone up to writing one? I've never
> done any low-level socket stuff, so I could sure use something a bit
> higher level.

If you're on a Unix-ish[1] platform I'm working on a Ruby interface to the
Libnet portable packet generation library which includes resolver
functions.  I can package them up separately if they'll do the trick
(mainly they do straight host <-> IP lookups, plus some hardware
identification) for you.

> It seems to me that for Ruby to catch on as it should, there needs to be
> more modules ala Perl.

It's true, but we're getting there.  In fact Ruby will almost certainly
have a Libnet interface before Perl does. :)

[1] Libnet does lots of low level networking, so its portability to Win32
is in doubt.

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