Package: ruby1.8
Version: 1.8.5-4
Severity: normal
ri Socket.gethostbyname implies that
ruby -rsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("127.0.0.1")'
should return something like:
["localhost", ["localloop", "loop", "loghost"], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]
as it does on a redhat machine I have access to using
ruby 1.8.2 (might be patched).
on my machine at least, it returns:
["127.0.0.1", [], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]
which is not what I'd like.
You can replace 127.0.0.1 with any address you like
(obviously, looking up localhost isn't important); I expect
that looking up localhost can be done without a connection
to the outside network so might fit in a regression test.
This used to work, but I haven't paid close attention to changes
recently, and the documentation I can find says this should work.
Also applies to a version of 1.9 ( 1.9.0+20060609-1 ) I have installed:
sr:~/src> ruby1.9 -rsocket -e 'p
Socket.gethostbyname("127.0.0.1")'
["127.0.0.1", [], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]
sr:~/src> ruby1.9 --version
ruby 1.9.0 (2006-06-08) [i486-linux]
sr:~/src> ruby1.6 -rsocket -e 'p
Socket.gethostbyname("127.0.0.1")'
["localhost.localdomain", ["localhost"], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]
In the meantime, I guess I'll use resolv.
-neil
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