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Subject:	Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?
Date:	Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:34:19 -0600
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surendar jeyadev wrote:
[snip]
> I have to try one more thing -- turn of Norton and
> unplug the cable. But there is something very fishy
> going one. When I tried to launch Cygwin a few minutes
> ago, Norton popped up a message saying=20
> 'hostname.exe is trying to contact DNS server'.=20

Bingo!  hostname is called from /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile.d/complete.=
tcsh,
are you using csh or tcsh?  That would explain what is going on.

The solution would be to add hostname.exe to the list of programs allowed t=
o use
the Internet (Windows firewall) or open the respective port (53 if it's usi=
ng DNS).

HTH
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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