Re: Problem with gem1.8

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:56:47 +0900, Stefan Palm 
<stefan.palm%pdmc.net@localhost> wrote:

> > I feel not same (os networking settings, or something), so failed.
> > You should add "-V" (or --debug) options to gem and look at what is
> > happend.
>
> Ok, so here's the "-V" output:
>
> % gem install -V rails --http-proxy=http://mmoproxy....de:8080/
> ERROR:  http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
> Error fetching remote data:             SocketError: getaddrinfo: no address 
> for the specified node name (http://rubygems.org/yaml)
> Falling back to local-only install
> ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'rails' (>= 0) in any repository
>
> (BTW, a 'nslookup rubygems.org' does work:
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:   rubygems.org
> Address: 72.4.120.124)

Hmm, I can see same errors if proxy server name is not resolvable for the 
machine.
If it is resolved with nslookup, or host command, ruby on sparc may have
issues in network related modules.

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