X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin? Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:07:56 -0500 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <234909.49983.qm@web52802.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <234909.49983.qm@web52802.mail.re2.yahoo.com> OpenPGP: url=hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net 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 Brad wrote: [snip] > Would anyone care to: >=20 > a. confirm whether 'nsswitch.conf' and such work in Cygwin? No. But /etc/resolv.conf does if you installed minires. > b. tell me how I can get Cygwin to search various domains when > trying to resolve hostnames? Haven't tried it myself but adding 'search domain.whatever' in /etc/resolv.= conf might work. Sure way to do it: add the search domains in Windows' "Advanced TCP/IP Sett= ings" for your network card, in the append... options of course. > c. tell me about any 'networking' FAQ for cygwin? No dice. > We primarily use NIS here, although DNS as well; I believe NIS isn't > available with cygwin? Don't really know the answer to that one. --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/