Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?
Brad wrote: [snip] Would anyone care to: a. confirm whether 'nsswitch.conf' and such work in Cygwin? No. But /etc/resolv.conf does if you installed minires. b. tell me how I can get Cygwin to search various domains when trying to resolve hostnames? Haven't tried it myself but adding 'search domain.whatever' in /etc/resolv.conf might work. Sure way to do it: add the search domains in Windows' Advanced TCP/IP Settings for your network card, in the append... options of course. c. tell me about any 'networking' FAQ for cygwin? No dice. We primarily use NIS here, although DNS as well; I believe NIS isn't available with cygwin? Don't really know the answer to that one. -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?
Brad wrote: Hi. I've just recently installed cygwin and I'd like to ask a few questions about networking. I've installed practically all the Cygwin packages but I'm frustrated by a couple of trivial little problems. For example, when I do a ping host the host can't be found; I have to put in the fully-qualified host name: ping host.company.com Make sure that the 'ping' that's being used is from /usr/bin (== /bin), and not from (for example) WINDOWS/System32 Do a 'which -a', to answer this question. BTB, in the aforementioned System32 dir, there is also a traceroute -- 'tracert', which just like it's name is at least a few characters short of adequacy, but c'est la defenestration. ;-) See also: Google: tracetcp HTH, Lee -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?
Hi. I've just recently installed cygwin and I'd like to ask a few questions about networking. I've installed practically all the Cygwin packages but I'm frustrated by a couple of trivial little problems. For example, when I do a ping host the host can't be found; I have to put in the fully-qualified host name: ping host.company.com Even though a lookup via the name server: nslookup host works, without the argument having to be fully-qualified. So I set up a simple /etc/nsswitch.conf, as I would on any Unix machine, with the contents: hosts: files dns and /etc/resolv.conf with: search company.com but it's had no effect. I also can't find man pages for 'nsswitch.conf' or 'resolv.conf' in my cygwin installation, or even 'getent', so I'm wondering if those files are even used by cygwin. I've searched for terms like 'cygwin' and 'nsswitch.conf' but haven't found anything to go on. I do apologise if this is a real 'newbie' question. I suspect that cygwin delegates all things networking off to Windows, and so to fix this problem I'd have to do the equivalent of an nswitch.conf entry in Windows land? Which I'm not competent to do, unfortunately. Would anyone care to: a. confirm whether 'nsswitch.conf' and such work in Cygwin? b. tell me how I can get Cygwin to search various domains when trying to resolve hostnames? c. tell me about any 'networking' FAQ for cygwin? We primarily use NIS here, although DNS as well; I believe NIS isn't available with cygwin? Many thanks, Brad Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
