On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Timothy Hunter wrote:

> Peter Booth wrote:
>> Works for me from script or in irb. I'd be suspicious about your name 
>> resolution
>> 
>> I'd suggest breaking this down - do any of the net examples work?
>> Try an http example
>> Try writing a dns client
>> 
> open-uri works to retrieve a web page via a url. curl works. I installed the 
> most recent version of Ruby but it didn't help.
>

ftp.passive = true

??

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