[erlang-questions] gethostbyname always timeout

[Zoltan Lajos Kis]

Hi,

Probably because there is something wrong.

Check with windump, or any other packet analyzer how many UDP packets 
(if any) come and go when you issue the command
to narrow down the search for the error.

Regards,
Zoltan.

info wrote:
> Hello,
> on my machine with windows 2003 server, the function
> inet:gethostbyname("www.erlang.org", inet) returns always {error,timeout}
>
> why ?
>
>