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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 00:20:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Rich McNeary <rich DOT mcneary AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ping, nslookup can't resolve names
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Rich McNeary wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I feel like I should have been abe to find this, I've googled and
> searched archives for 2 days, I see there are people who appear to
> have a similar problem, but there's no resolution posted.
>
> I'm using Cygwin for jabber 1.4.3. Jabber compiles, starts, and I can
> connect to it from another computer, but it isn't able to resolve
> names to connect to other jabber servers.
>
> I started trying to ping the other servers in cygwin's bash terminal
> but the host couldn't be found, nslookup had similar problems.
>
> If I open an XP terminal and use window's version of ping I'm able to
> get to the other servers, so windows seems to have the information,
> but cygwin can't access it.
>
> Am I missing a needed application or library?
>
> I'm running cygwin 1.5.13-1. Thanks.

It would probably be instructive to run "type ping" and "type nslookup" in
the bash shell...  Also, please read and follow the Cygwin problem
reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
HTH,
	Igor
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