A collection of utilities for working with network addresses, names, etc.
A union of IPv4 and IPv6 regular expressions.
Return the specified address as one or more IPAddr objects.
# File lib/arborist/mixins.rb, line 405
def normalize_address( address )
addresses = []
case address
when IPAddr
addresses << address
when IPADDR_RE
addresses << IPAddr.new( address )
when String
ip_addr = TCPSocket.gethostbyname( address )
addresses = ip_addr[3..-1].map{|ip| IPAddr.new(ip) }
else
raise "I don't know how to parse a %p host address (%p)" %
[ address.class, address ]
end
return addresses
end