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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:53:00 -0500
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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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