dig uses udp by default. But from your error, it appears that Dnsruby
might be using tcp. Maybe try

dig +tcp www.abc.com @8.8.8.8

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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:24 AM, craayzie <flesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for replying Matt and good catch on the nameserver IP - it was
> a typo. Unfortunately, I get the exact same connection error message
> from Heroku when using an IP that dig has no problem connecting to
> (e.g. Google's public DNS server 8.8.8.8):
>
>>> res = Dnsruby::Resolver.new({:nameserver => "8.8.8.8"})
> ...
>>> ret = res.query('www.abc.com')
> Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)
>
>>> puts `dig www.abc.com @8.8.8.8`
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R3 <<>> www.abc.com @8.8.8.8
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ...
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> On Apr 4, 5:50 am, Matthew Todd <matt...@matthewtodd.org> wrote:
>> Hi, Craayzie --
>>
>> > >> res = Dnsruby::Resolver.new({:nameserver => ["68.87.76.182"]})
>> > >> ret = res.query("www.abc.com")
>> > Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)
>>
>> For what it's worth, I just tried running `dig` in a Heroku console.
>>
>> Querying the nameserver you mentioned didn't work:
>>
>>         >> puts `dig @68.87.78.182www.abc.com`
>>
>>         ; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R3 <<>> @68.87.78.182www.abc.com
>>         ; (1 server found)
>>         ;; global options: +cmd
>>         ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>>
>>         => nil
>>
>> While querying Google's public DNS did:
>>
>>         >> puts `dig @8.8.8.8www.abc.com`
>>
>>         ; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R3 <<>> @8.8.8.8www.abc.com
>>         ; (1 server found)
>>         ;; global options: +cmd
>>         ;; Got answer:
>>         ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33218
>>         ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>
>>         ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>>         ;www.abc.com.                   IN      A
>>
>>         ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>        www.abc.com.            248     IN      CNAME   abc.com.
>>         abc.com.                248     IN      A       199.181.132.250
>>
>>         ;; Query time: 4 msec
>>         ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
>>         ;; WHEN: Mon Apr  4 05:24:49 2011
>>         ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 59
>>
>>         => nil
>>
>> Hope this gives you some kind of a lead,  -- Matthew
>>
>>  smime.p7s
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