Within my rails application, I make exactly one connection to a drb server,
using following code:


  def connect_to_drb
    DRb.start_service #line no 29 of program
    begin
      @drb_con = DRbObject.new(nil, 'druby://'+@drb_ip.strip)
      @con_type = 'drb'
      return @drb_con
    rescue
      @drb_con = nil
      return nil
    end
  end
  
And strangely it gives me following error sometime.I stress, only sometimes.
I guess, I don't need to do "DRb.start_service" to connect to drb server.But
still, I would like to know the reason.

I am on Ubuntu dapper server edition.running ruby 1.8.4 and using mongrel +
apache2.2 mod_proxy_balancer


SocketError (getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution):
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in `getaddrinfo'
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in `open_server_inaddr_any'
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:860:in `open_server'
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:756:in `open_server'
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:754:in `open_server'
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1336:in `initialize'
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1624:in `start_service'
    /lib/connection_class.rb:29:in `connect_to_drb'
    /lib/connection_class.rb:92:in `get_data_from_drb'
    /lib/connection_class.rb:85:in `get_data'
    /app/controllers/price_controller.rb:49:in `popupchart'