Alex Fenton wrote:
> Hi
> I'd like to use druby, but with the client using just an IP address to 
> contact the server, and vice versa. The initial connection works fine, 
> but then it seems the server can't find the client to send a reply when 
> a method is invoked.
> 
> I realise this question has been asked before, and answered by 'fix your 
> DNS' or 'tweak etc/hosts'.
> However, this is for an end-user app, so most users (of clients and 
> servers) won't be permitted to access etc/hosts, even if I wanted to 
> explain what they should do to it.
> 
> So
> - has anyone hacked drb to work without hostnames?
> - failing that, is there a deep technical reason that using IP addresses 
> only will never work and I shouldn't bother even trying? It seems lots 
> of other net applications work fine without caring that DNS is fixed, 
> but I've not got masses of experience with socket programming in Ruby.

Probably someone has suggested this before, but have you tried

Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = true

?

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