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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Krzysztof Duleba" Subject: Re: setup doesn't work with DNS down Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:37:07 +0200 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Igor Pechtchanski 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? > > Yup. Add the following entry to /etc/hosts (mind the Tab): > 67.72.78.213 www.cygwin.com cygwin.com sources.redhat.com It works! Thank you very much :-) Regards Krzysztof Duleba -- 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/