Windows dialer starts when doing ssh

[terry]

Hello,

Thought I'ld try again... I have a Win98se machine running cygwin. 
After running startxwin.bat (no multiwindow - twm running) and typing in 
'ssh computer' in a terminal window, the windows dialer appears.  How 
can this happen?

The windows machine is on a network with only Linux machines, and is set 
up with a fixed IP address and name.  The windows machine currently uses 
a dialup connection for internet/email access, but is being converted to 
using them through ssh to a Linux machine (a process that may take a 
long while).  The ssh works fine after closing the dialer.

Is there a way to do the same function a /etc/resolve.conf to specify 
the domain first as the order for looking for the host?

TIA,

terry