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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:26:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Krzysztof Duleba cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup doesn't work with DNS down In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > I have a problem with setup - it can't connect to the server to download > list of mirrors. My Internet connection is ok, but DNS that I'm connected > to is down and temporary I'm resolving domain names manually. I can't > change DNS entry in TCP/IP settings because it requires reboot, which will > not happen in next few days. Is there a way to make setup work? > > Regards > Krzysztof Duleba Yup. Add the following entry to /etc/hosts (mind the Tab): 67.72.78.213 www.cygwin.com cygwin.com sources.redhat.com and setup will not care if your DNS has temporarily gone to the moon. Just don't forget to take it out later (or keep it there, but beware of IP address changes for www.cygwin.com, though they are usually announced beforehand). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/