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: <20030303230236.GA517381@Worldnet> References: <20030303225214.83B0449E74@server2.fastmail.fm> <20030303230236.GA517381@Worldnet> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-JZ+g1GxCBBtqRLjGqcEF" Organization: The-Means.net Message-Id: <1046733117.23309.13.camel@milo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 03 Mar 2003 18:11:58 -0500 --=-JZ+g1GxCBBtqRLjGqcEF Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ah, yes, of'course. That would definately do it. Silly me... I didn't even think of that. On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:02, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Probably because it tries to get your hostname. > At any rate you should see why if you let strace > run a little bit more. >=20 > In previous versions Cygwin was using GetComputerName. > Not it uses gethostname, loading wsock. >=20 > Pierre >=20 >=20 > -- > 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/ --=20 David Means There are 10 kinds of people in this world: people who understand binary, a= nd people who don't. --=-JZ+g1GxCBBtqRLjGqcEF 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 iEYEABECAAYFAj5j4T0ACgkQUd0KwqAz4argiQCcCPekGUSqkEtpdxhqAmoxMxdn 7xUAnRZZuBGRiGOv0g5t7U0NqVJtUwMN =d57K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JZ+g1GxCBBtqRLjGqcEF--