From: nobu@... Date: 2017-02-05T14:45:34+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:79437] [Ruby trunk Feature#13097] Deprecate Socket.gethostbyaddr and Socket.gethostbyname Issue #13097 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada. ``` $ ruby -rsocket -e 'host = "ci.ruby-lang.org"; ai = Addrinfo.ip(host); p Socket.gethostbyname(host), Socket.getaddrinfo(host, nil), ai, ai.canonname' ["ci.ruby-lang.org", [], 2, "4\xC0P\xDB"] [["AF_INET", 0, "52.192.80.219", "52.192.80.219", 2, 2, 17], ["AF_INET", 0, "52.192.80.219", "52.192.80.219", 2, 1, 6]] # nil ``` `Socket.gethostbyname` returns the hostname, but `getaddrinfo` not. And `Addrinfo#inspect` shows the name but it provides `canonname` only. Perhaps we need some `Addrinfo#inspectname` or something, before deprecating `Socket.gethostbyname`? ---------------------------------------- Feature #13097: Deprecate Socket.gethostbyaddr and Socket.gethostbyname https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13097#change-62868 * Author: Vit Ondruch * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Is there a reason to keep these methods around? They were marked obsolete by POSIX.1-2001 and the POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of gethostbyname, gethostbyaddr recommending the use of getaddrinfo and getnameinfo instead. If they are kept because of Ruby backward compatibility, shouldn't they be re-implemented by these modern interfaces? -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: