Issue #17944 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto). It didn't seem like anyone was using them, and since they weren't good API to begin with (they had Perl-like design), I felt it was okay to remove them. Matz. ---------------------------------------- Feature #17944: Remove Socket.gethostbyaddr and Socket.gethostbyname https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17944#change-117559 * Author: pvalena (Pavel Valena) * Status: Open ---------------------------------------- It is marked as unsafe by our static analysis. Can it be removed now? It was deprecated in: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-master/repository/trunk/revisions/6... https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13097 -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/