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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:57:22 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To: Geoffrey Hausheer <cygwin1 AT phracturedblue DOT com>
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Subject: Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?
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Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> One more thing, I forgot to ask...
> 
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:46:09 -0800, "Geoffrey Hausheer" said:
> 
>>Thank you, this indeed is the issue, as can be seen from the very next
>>line after the wsock call:
>>5495150 5519336 [main] bash 1940 cygwin_gethostname: name Holly
> 
> 
> I don't suppose there is any way to prevent all of these hostname lookups
> (since they are obviously sommething somewhat recent)?
> For bash I can just tell ZoneAlarm to ignore it, and all is well, but 
> since applications like vim seem to be doing the same thing  (and yes I
> removed \h from my PS1 line, just to be sure), the whole point of
> installing ssh (to get sshd working) has gone out the window since
> anytime I run a program that uses hostname, ZoneAlarm will complain on my
> local desktop, and my remote session will hang (Obviously, I could let
> all outgoing programs access the internet freely, but preventing that is
> half the reason I run ZoneAlarm in the first place)
> 

Hm, I run Cygwin on the 5 machines I use and run ZoneAlarm on a
few of those as well.  I don't get complaints from ZoneAlarm about
any Cygwin programs.  Sounds like there's something different about
your networking setup, though I'm not sure what it is.  I know I didn't
configure anything special on any of my machines though.


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