Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS? From: David Means To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20030303225214.83B0449E74@server2.fastmail.fm> References: <20030303225214.83B0449E74@server2.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-QH+KEs+xhJ2Dgx0sfNrc" Organization: The-Means.net Message-Id: <1046732802.23308.10.camel@milo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 03 Mar 2003 18:06:43 -0500 --=-QH+KEs+xhJ2Dgx0sfNrc Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Can you show us your PATH and all of your mount points? In the meantime, I'll upgrade my cygwin @ home. If I don't find the same behaviour, I'll check my config at work. On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:52, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:42:51 -0500 (EST), "Igor Pechtchanski > pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu {Cygwin}" > said: > > Geoffrey, > > > > Well, first off, your strace output seems hosed. There might have been= a > > problem while pasting it. Next time, try the "-o" option of strace... > > You can then edit the resulting file to get the relevant snippet. Also= , > > pasting strace output in a message reformats it. Try attaching it > > (compressed if it's too large). > it seems my mail client always compresses my attachemnts, and I can't do > anything=20 > about it, and the maillist spam-filters block my compressed version, and > the=20 > maillist won't accept my 'I am not a spammer mail' so I guess i can't > send the=20 > strace output. >=20 > I did diff the strace output with and without allowing access to the DNS > lookup, > and there are no significant differences. >=20 > > > > For how long a while haven't you updated? Do you have old-style cygdri= ve > > paths (e.g. "//c") in your path? Those now refer to Windows UNC paths, > > which would be one explanation for this behavior. > It has probably been 2 months since I updated. I have no '//c' in my > paths >=20 > 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) >=20 > Thanks, > Geoff=20 --=20 David Means Being a programmer is like being married: You talk to your spouse about lots of things, only to find that something you=20 said (and promptly forgot) has come back to bite you in the ass=20 months later. =20 --=-QH+KEs+xhJ2Dgx0sfNrc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAj5j4AIACgkQUd0KwqAz4arIDgCfYMlGLA02zWKTP999LJFg6iPh QysAn3V/YxWKgE5q6518mr0O1EwB4gXg =JK8M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-QH+KEs+xhJ2Dgx0sfNrc--