On Mar 14, 2016, at 6:45 PM, Frank Farance <fr...@farance.com> wrote: > > I have been having this problem with "ping". If I "ping" a location that > doesn't exist, then "ping" just hangs and cannot be killed via "kill -KILL > [pid]”.
Are you certain that you’re using the Cygwin ping, and not the native Windows ping? Cygwin ping requires admin privileges, so you’d definitely know if you were using it. In a non-Admin shell, you see: $ ping gw ping: socket: Operation not permitted You can’t expect native Windows executables to respond in a POSIXy way to POSIX signals. (As for “why” Cygwin ping requires admin privileges and native ping does not, it’s because native ping uses a special DLL that avoids the need for raw sockets. Cygwin ping requires raw sockets in order to do things in a POSXYy way.) > if I type the URL http://something.that.doesnt.exist in my browser, rather > than getting a Hostname Not Found error (at the name resolution level), it > actually loads up a page saying "something.that.doesnt.exist" isn't found and > then I have a Yahoo set of search results on things matching the broken > hostname. Use GRC’s DNS benchmark to find a DNS server that is not only fast but also standards-compliant: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm If you can’t be bothered, use Google’s DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
