why is bash trying to access my DNS?

["Geoffrey Hausheer" <cygwin1 at phracturedblue dot com>]

Today I tried to install sshd on my
cygwin system, (which also resulted in
downloading lots of updates, since I'd
been lax in updating for a while).

I went through the setup procedures for
openssh, and got it working.  During all
of this, I had disabled my firewall
(ZoneAlarm), since I've had problems
with it and sshd in the past.

When I reenabled Zonealarm, and tried to  
open cygwin (run rxvt), all of a sudden
ZoneAlarm pops up a message 'rxvt want
to access the internet (and then tells
me it is trying to access my DNS server)

I deny that request, and bash asks for
the same thing.  and vim.

Well, something seems screwy, and it has
definitely never done this before.

So I uninstalled ssh, but that didn't
help.  So I completely uninstalled
cygwin, wiped my registry of all cygwin
related things, rebooted, and
reinstalled cygwin.  and bash STILL
wanted to access the DNS server (and
rxvt and everything else)

After searching the web, I found other
people had had this problem, and it was
related to cygdaemo, but this does not
appear to be the case for me (no
cygdaemo on my box anywhere, cygserver
isn't running, and this is a WinXP box)

I figured I'd try to look at bash's
strace output, and get the followng
(hopefully, I pasted in enough).  I
wasn't able to glean anything from it.

Can anyone tell me what I did to my
system?  this is very frustrating.

----------
   39   32387 [main] bash 436 open: 3 = open (/dev/tty, 0x4002)
   40   32427 [main] bash 436 close: close (3)
   62   32489 [main] bash 436 close: 0 = close (3)
   36   32525 [main] bash 436 stat64: entering
   40   32565 [main] bash 436 normalize_posix_path: src /tmp
   35   32600 [main] bash 436 normalize_posix_path: /tmp =
   normalize_posix_path (/tmp)
   35   32635 [main] bash 436 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path:
   conv_to_win32_path (/tmp)
   45   32680 [main] bash 436 set_flags: flags: binary (0x2)
   35   32715 [main] bash 436 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path
   /tmp, dst C:\cygwin\tmp, flags 0x
A, rc 0
  276   32991 [main] bash 436 symlink_info::check: not a symlink
   37   33028 [main] bash 436 symlink_info::check: 0 = symlink.check
   (C:\cygwin\tmp, 0x22F540) (0xA)
)
   68   33136 [main] bash 436 dtable::build_fhandler: fd -1, fh
   0x615E0874
   37   33173 [main] bash 436 stat_worker: (/tmp, 0x22FDC0, 0, 0x22FA20),
   file_attributes 16
   46   33219 [main] bash 436 fhandler_base::open: (C:\cygwin\tmp,
   0x110000) query_open 0
x22F940, 0x3, 0x2000081, 0)
   60   34016 [main] bash 436 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x110000,
   supplied_bin 0x10000
   37   34053 [main] bash 436 fhandler_base::set_flags: O_TEXT/O_BINARY
   set in flags 0x10000
   35   34088 [main] bash 436 fhandler_base::set_flags: filemode set to
   binary
   34   34122 [main] bash 436 fhandler_base::open: 1 =
   fhandler_base::open (C:\cygwin\tmp, 0x110000)
10000)
gwin\tmp, 1832)
st_size=0, st_mode=0x41ED, st_ino=635407883, sizeof=88
   45   34560 [main] bash 436 fhandler_base::close: closing '/tmp' handle
   0x728
   75   34635 [main] bash 436 stat_worker: 0 = (/tmp, 0x22FDC0)
  164   34799 [main] bash 436 time: 1046719880 = time (0)
  103   34902 [main] bash 436 isatty: 1 = isatty (0)
   35   34937 [main] bash 436 isatty: 0 = isatty (1)
  188   35125 [main] bash 436 sigaction: signal 20, newact 0x22FD28,
  oldact 0x22FD18
   39   35164 [main] bash 436 sigaction: signal 20, newact 0x22FD28,
   oldact 0x22FD18
   37   35201 [main] bash 436 sigaction: signal 2, newact 0x22FD28,
   oldact 0x22FD18
   36   35237 [main] bash 436 sigaction: signal 2, newact 0x22FD28,
   oldact 0x22FD18
   37   35274 [main] bash 436 sigaction: signal 3, newact 0x22FD28,
   oldact 0x22FD18
   36   35310 [main] bash 436 sigaction: signal 3, newact 0x22FD28,
   oldact 0x22FD18
   38   35348 [main] bash 436 sigaction: signal 3, newact 0x22FD28,
   oldact 0x22FD18
7338   42686 [main] bash 436 wsock_init: res 0
  120   42806 [main] bash 436 wsock_init: wVersion 514
   34   42840 [main] bash 436 wsock_init: wHighVersion 514
   34   42874 [main] bash 436 wsock_init: szDescription WinSock 2.0
   34   42908 [main] bash 436 wsock_init: szSystemStatus Running
   34   42942 [main] bash 436 wsock_init: iMaxSockets 0
   34   42976 [main] bash 436 wsock_init: iMaxUdpDg 0
   33   43009 [main] bash 436 wsock_init: lpVendorInfo 0

(at which point ZoneAlarms pops up and asks for internet permission)

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