On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Daniel Miller wrote: > I've noticed that my Cygwin server can connect to my Linux client just > fine, as long as both machines are connected to our local network. > However, if we unplug the machines (who share a common Ethernet switch) > from the local network, I can no longer connect to the linux box. I'm > guessing that this has something to do with a DNS lookup on one side or the > other; telnet sessions have a similar situation, though the telnet session > *does* eventually time out and connect. Is this a reasonable guess?? Is > there something I can do to bypass this DNS lookup, if that's what it is, > so we can connect any time, even if no general network is present???
If both machines have static IPs, try adding them to the /etc/hosts files on both Linux and Cygwin. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw