rails server cannot start; getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (SocketError)

Question

I have not found a solution to the problem, however someone did already ask about the same problem a few days ago - (Rails Server Keeps Exiting (SocketError))

After

Answer 1

Try changing to UNIX Encoding:

brew install dos2unix
sudo dos2unix -c mac /private/etc/hosts