X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4B7243B3.9090301@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:27:15 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.7.1 ssh on win7 Non-recoverable failure in name resolution ? References: <8540148a1002092117l176fc9a7u45a0084644f3e0e1 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-reply-to: <8540148a1002092117l176fc9a7u45a0084644f3e0e1@mail.gmail.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 02/10/2010 12:17 AM, William Deegan wrote: > Greetings, > > I've just setup a win7 ultimate vm under vmware fusion. > > And of course, installed cygwin. > > When I try to ssh to my favorite host using my favorite username I get > the following error: > ssh: Could not resolve hostname myhost.xyz.com: Non-recoverable > failure in name resolution > > Any suggestions how to resolve this? > I saw another email where there was a similar issue with nslookup > which suggested adding a resolv.conf (which I did and that resolve > nslookup for the same host). So you can now ping this machine from your Win 7 VM by name and IP? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple