Sounds like the ports were being blocked.
On 14 April 2010 21:36, Jeffrey L. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > While traveling, I found a motel with WiFi where Firefox and the DNS > utilities, > nslookup and dig, worked as expected, but wget, termtter (a CLI Twitter > client), my Ruby on Rails applications, and several other programs could > not > resolve any domain names (getaddrinfo error, from memory). If I plugged > the > IP address obtained with nslookup into /etc/hosts, they worked as expected. > > Could anyone enlighten me about how these programs resolve domain names > differently? > > TIA, > Jeffrey > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- Charles A. Lopez [email protected] What's your vision for your organization? What's your biggest challenge? Let's talk. (IBM Partner) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
