X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: Accessing remote PC (ssh?) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:53:00 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <45F98063.2080802@bellsouth.net> <013101c76726$f56566b0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <013101c76726$f56566b0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Dave Korn wrote: > On 15 March 2007 17:21, Charles Russell wrote: >> Larry Hall (I think!) wrote: >>> This is likely a DNS/DHCP problem (i.e. not a Cygwin problem). What do you >>> get when you "ping sony06"? >>> >> $ ping sony06 >> >> Pinging sony06 [192.168.2.100] with 32 bytes of data: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > It may be relevant that that is the windows native version of ping rather > than the cygwin one, although I don't see why a name lookup would work for > 'doze and not for cygwin. Very odd. Indeed it may be. Doesn't Windows sometimes use WINS to look up hostnames when DNS fails? IIRC you can ping (using Windows 'ping') a computer by WINS name even if it isn't in DNS. -- Matthew Caution: keep out of reach of adults. -- 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/