Which ports. clearly not 53 (DNS). Jeffrey
Quoting Charles A. Lopez <[email protected]>: > 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? -- 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.
