RE: Hosts and X0.hosts

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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
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