Re: [MacPerl] PPE socket example

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.22 -0400 1999.07.05, Douglas A. spore wrote:
>I'm having trouble running the socket example on page 241of PPE.
>I get the folloowing error message :
>
># IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname 'daytime.clock.org'
>File
>'MacPerl:MacPerl:Examples:Chapter_17_Network_Programming:0.Sockets.0.pl';
>Line 9
>
>The Pod says that it can be a hostname or and IP address. I've tried it on
>my linux box and it fails in the same manner. Am I doing some thing wrong?

  defender:~> nslookup daytime.clock.org
  Server:  localhost
  Address:  127.0.0.1

  Name:    louie.udel.edu
  Address:  128.175.1.3
  Aliases:  daytime.clock.org

  defender:~> ping daytime.clock.org
  PING louie.udel.edu (128.175.1.3): 56 data bytes

  --- louie.udel.edu ping statistics ---
  40 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

The host is not up.  Try time.nist.gov instead (or some other host that
*is* up :).

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