ping, nslookup can't resolve names

[Michael Wardle]

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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