On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:10:03 +0900, ts <decoux / moulon.inra.fr> wrote: >>>>>> "R" == Rob Partington <rjp / frottage.org> writes: >R> For example, rotten.com can't be looked up using Ruby and isn't "broken". > svg% ruby -rsocket -e 'p IPSocket.getaddress("rotten.com")' > "216.218.248.174" Yes, I already showed that getaddrinfo worked fine. gethostbyname *doesn't*. http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?FixBrokenWindows sums it up quite well. That this is still confusing people *two years later* is insane.