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: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:02:35 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Joel cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bash tries to connect to the internet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1jh2ky6pig2jq.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> <20040321165733.GC27006@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Joel wrote: > Why is it trying to access a DNS anyways? Is there any way to stop it > from doing this? > > Thanks > Joel Joel, Cygwin is trying to access DNS because it invokes a Windows function that does that. It is possible to prevent Windows from accessing DNS when trying to find out the hostname of the machine, but it's beyond the scope of this list, and you'll have to ask on a Windows forum for further help with this. I'd suspect it has something to do with the 'HOSTS' file, and, FYI, Cygwin provides /etc/hosts as a symlink to that file, to make it easier. 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/