Posts Tagged ‘hostname’

Retrieve IP address from host name using Ruby

27 May 2010 at 11:01

Daniel

Ruby/RoR

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I just needed to retrieve the IP address for a given host name for a Ruby project. What helped me to achieve this goal was the Socket class. In this example I want to get the IP address for google.com: >> Socket::getaddrinfo(‘google.com’, ‘www’, nil, Socket::SOCK_STREAM)[0][3] => “209.85.129.147″

manual of the day… change hostname on Debian

12 Feb 2009 at 22:09

Daniel

manual of the day...

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Change hostname on Debian I wanted to change the hostname on my Debian Etch installation. The following worked: sudo vi /etc/hostname Change the hostname and save file and then sudo /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start