On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > I saw that C:\cygwin\etc\Hosts was a link to the above Hosts file. > > Because of the above problem, I replaced the link with the real Hosts > > file itself. > > Now I try to create a remote connection from a cygwin/X xterm using > > the following procedure: > > > > startxwin.bat > > xterm > > X :2 -query remote_hostname > > > > The system reports and exit the command in the xterm as > > follows. > > "Fatal server error: > > Xserver: -query unknown host: remote_hostname" > > > > b) Doesn't Cygwin/X read this latter Hosts file? > > I'm open to correction here, because I don't know the cygwin > internals, but I believe cygwin is relying on the Windows IP > stack for name resolution. Therefore, only the DNS servers > known to Windows and Windows hosts file will be checked for > names.
That's absolutely correct, hence the /etc/hosts symlink. 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