Dave Korn wrote:
On 15 March 2007 17:21, Charles Russell wrote:
Larry Hall (I think!) wrote:
This is likely a DNS/DHCP problem (i.e. not a Cygwin problem). What do you
get when you "ping sony06"?
$ ping sony06
Pinging sony06 [192.168.2.100] with 32 bytes of data:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It may be relevant that that is the windows native version of ping rather
than the cygwin one, although I don't see why a name lookup would work for
'doze and not for cygwin. Very odd.
Indeed it may be. Doesn't Windows sometimes use WINS to look up
hostnames when DNS fails? IIRC you can ping (using Windows 'ping') a
computer by WINS name even if it isn't in DNS.
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Matthew
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