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Re: ping, nslookup can't resolve names
- From: Michael Wardle <michael at endbracket dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:06:43 +1000
- Subject: Re: ping, nslookup can't resolve names
- References: <b7e2d91a0503312041427ffcb1@mail.gmail.com>
Rich McNeary wrote:
I started trying to ping the other servers in cygwin's bash terminal
but the host couldn't be found, nslookup had similar problems.
I had a similar problem a few years ago. The problem was one of:
- Windows not properly appending the domain name to a plain host name
(i.e. a non-FQDN)
- the Windows DNS cache
(see ipconfig /flush or similar)
- misunderstanding that ping is different from nslookup/host/dig
(ping uses the entire name resolution service which may include
%windir%/system32/drivers/etc/hosts and others whereas nslookup
uses only strictly DNS)
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