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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:01:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Geoffrey Hausheer <cygwin1 AT phracturedblue DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:42:51 -0500 (EST), "Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu {Cygwin}" <ticket_b4c692b6a628a6572cfbceac69375621 AT phracturedblue DOT com> said:
> > Geoffrey,
> >
> > Well, first off, your strace output seems hosed.  There might have been a
> > problem while pasting it.  Next time, try the "-o" option of strace...
> > You can then edit the resulting file to get the relevant snippet.  Also,
> > pasting strace output in a message reformats it.  Try attaching it
> > (compressed if it's too large).
>
> it seems my mail client always compresses my attachemnts, and I can't do
> anything about it, and the maillist spam-filters block my compressed
> version, and the maillist won't accept my 'I am not a spammer mail' so I
> guess i can't send the strace output.

<http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#rbl-sucks>

> I did diff the strace output with and without allowing access to the DNS
> lookup, and there are no significant differences.
>
> > For how long a while haven't you updated?  Do you have old-style cygdrive
> > paths (e.g. "//c") in your path?  Those now refer to Windows UNC paths,
> > which would be one explanation for this behavior.
>
> It has probably been 2 months since I updated.  I have no '//c' in my
> paths
>
> Please let me know if there is anything else I can do.  While I am
> certain that something about the cygwin upgrade ssh install caused this
> change, it seems toaffect other applictaions too (ipconfig now does a
> DNS request too, which it never used to do)

Well, you could try following the instructions at
<http://cygwin.com/bugs.html> and sending your cygcheck output as an
uncompressed attachment (read the above link first)...

What mail client do you use?  It's very likely someone on the list uses
the same one and will tell you how to turn off compression for text
attachments...
	Igor
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