X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id
	:date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=H8D+riolca14AO7M
	59Knw0J4VcHPpfPYUuh8FMYBRUZPxKLQc90qeiThyJg1S5745pHVmBqchFFX1wbW
	kDEkBns32hYLOBVm0CdyENLaVYH2rmxSzk+GjofgV7oXL0dNvii6DxHmKQPAHf6p
	KdrZuFaNbN389TdDQFz8pqeGK5s=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id
	:date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=K7+iXr1QNt1rGZN66qTvO3
	fG2Wc=; b=xkBKyE6iQ/XkYghrBKkeOJsUeLkJUklcOdn2e3XyMaHFHl6BCKahfF
	Ck/krBA8e7eSoDwMpjyE8HYjWrtvwixP3MZb9OQZ3747adavc76hlpXqiVBZrAbC
	XwsX+ba0aNlUXyzavh+o0FbiGrJZ2kyTjBqvBPHo1bGCDARR1p4W8=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=wifi, WiFi, morning, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit
X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca
Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca
Subject: Re: Automatically populate resolv.conf when new DNS is acquired
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <65242f5d-cc15-0024-47a8-0ce6be81aced AT mail DOT com> <c69b1d0a-74e9-bfe0-7c7e-500499844da5 AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca> <7b7e40f8-3f84-4080-8ffa-9ac92b973435 AT mail DOT com>
From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
Openpgp: preference=signencrypt
Message-ID: <d2e60337-552b-2a11-750d-9e9f476703b2@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:45:04 -0600
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <7b7e40f8-3f84-4080-8ffa-9ac92b973435@mail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes

On 2018-06-27 03:31, john doe wrote:
> Good morning  Brian, bottom posting.
> By Windows Admin you mean "Windows Admin Center"?

Line wrapped - Windows Admin Tools - on W10 - or search for event (log) viewer

> I'm using Cygwin on a laptop (win 7 pro) and sadly, if I'm not mistaking,
> "Windows Admin" is not available on non-server platform.

May be Administrative Tools on W7

> If I can't find a way to determine when my DNS changes I can clearly emulate
> an hourly cron job by using "task scheduler".

If you're using DHCP it could potentially change when your lease expires,
sometimes a couple of days, (depends on your router settings or ISP: my external
IP changes every few months, internal and DNS never) or if on WiFi, when you
connect to a new AP.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

--
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