X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_SV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4E494FC9.7040708@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:56:41 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem References: <4E46E5DB DOT 4010309 AT stevens DOT edu> In-reply-to: <4E46E5DB.4010309@stevens.edu> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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 8/13/2011 5:00 PM, John Dzielski wrote: > I have cygwin installed on a VMWare VM running Windows 7 on a Mac running > OSX 10.6. I am unable to get name resolution to work with ssh. The command > ssh X returns the error "ssh: could not resolve hostname X: Non-recoverable > failure in name resolution." The command nslookup X returns a valid IP > address. I found the link below, and several others that reference the > problem, but no solution. Is there a solution to this problem? > > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00230.html > > I do not have this problem with machines running XP either on VMs or > natively. I've created a partial workaround in my .bashrc file that creates > variables containing the IP addresses of the names I need to resolve. This > solution doesn't work with svn working copies if the repository has a > dynamic address because the IP address of the repository at checkout will be > coded in the .svn/entries file. If the IP address of the svn server changes > I'm won't be able to perform svn operations. Have you talked to the VMWare folks about this? It does seem like an odd issue that only affects name resolution on VMware with Win7. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ 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