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Stephen Veit

26 Jan, 2011 04:05 PM

I get the following error when trying to install a gem:

Updating installed gems
ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)

SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (http://rubygems.org/yaml)

It seems http://rubygems.org/yaml redirects to http://production.s3.rubygems.org/yaml

host production.s3.rubygems.org returns
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Can you fix your DNS servers or temporari;y tell me the IP address of production.s3.rubygems.org so I could put it in my /etc/hosts file?

Thanks.

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Eric Hodel on 26 Jan, 2011 05:24 PM

   

   This is working fine for me:

   $ host production.s3.rubygems.org
   production.s3.rubygems.org is an alias for production.s3.rubygems.org.s3.amazonaws.com.
   production.s3.rubygems.org.s3.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com.
   s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-2-w.amazonaws.com.
   s3-2-w.amazonaws.com has address 207.171.185.201
   

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2. 3 Posted by Stephen Veit on 26 Jan, 2011 05:53 PM

   

   Eric,

   It works on my home computer but not on my work computer. Some DNS server must have a stale cache. You can close this issue. Thanks.

   On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Eric Hodel wrote:

   > host production.s3.rubygems.org

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3. Support Staff 4 Posted by Eric Hodel on 26 Jan, 2011 06:54 PM

   

   Ok, thanks!

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4. Eric Hodel closed this discussion on 26 Jan, 2011 06:54 PM.

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