why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
Today I tried to install sshd on my cygwin system, (which also resulted in downloading lots of updates, since I'd been lax in updating for a while). I went through the setup procedures for openssh, and got it working. During all of this, I had disabled my firewall (ZoneAlarm), since I've had prob

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
ve no '//c' in my paths Please let me know if there is anything else I can do. While I am certain that something about the cygwin upgrade ssh install caused this change, it seems toaffect other applictaions too (ipconfig now does a DNS request too, which it neverused to do) Thanks, Geof

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
I can specify the attachment type with it. I just can't access my home computer at the moment. Thank you for your help. Geoff -- Geoffrey Hausheer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:02:36 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet said: > Probably because it tries to get your hostname. > At any rate you should see why if you let strace > run a little bit more. > > In previous versions Cygwin was using GetComputerName. > Not it uses gethostname, loading wsock. Thank you,

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
One more thing, I forgot to ask... On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:46:09 -0800, "Geoffrey Hausheer" said: > Thank you, this indeed is the issue, as can be seen from the very next > line after the wsock call: > 5495150 5519336 [main] bash 1940 cygwin_gethostname: name Holly I don

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
stname call tries to go access the DNS first for some reason. Thanks, Geoff > Igor > P.S. Your /etc/hosts should be a link to > c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Yes it does this. -- Geoffrey Hausheer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
connections you need to be > concerned about. I care. The reason I use zonealarm is to prevent any nasty 'sneaky' programs from trying to send data off my system without my knowing it. It has nothing to do with security (well that is the incoming part, which is there to

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
cygwin program. I just can't figure out what installing sshd (or whatever I did while installinng sshd) made everything get hosed. Thanks, Geoff -- Geoffrey Hausheer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
On 04 Mar 2003 00:08:27 -0500, "David Means dmeans-at-the-means.net |cygwin/1.0-Allow|" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Proper hostname resolution should look in the hosts file before querying > DNS. Try putting your hostname/ip address pair in your host file. I > don't recall if windows will look the