Many thanks to bothTravis and Mark. I shall investigate both options.
Some of this is rather fuzzy to me, but I'll master it. I'll report
back for the record once I sort it out.

Thanks
Jack

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Hegner, Travis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On my (now horribly outdated) blog, I show how to prefer IPv4 in java, 
> through command line options. I don't know if/how this would translate to a 
> windows/cygwin setup... but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway...
>
> export HADOOP_OPTS=-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
>
> more details can be found at: 
> http://www.travishegner.com/2009/06/hadoop-020-on-ubuntu-server-904-jaunty.html
>
> HTH,
>
> Travis Hegner
> http://www.travishegner.com/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Laffoon [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Win7/cygwin SocketException: Address family not supported by 
> protocol
>
> Have you tried disabling ipv6?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Park [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 6:50 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Win7/cygwin SocketException: Address family not supported by
> protocol
>
> I followed these marvelous instructions at
> http://hbase.apache.org/docs/r0.20.4/cygwin.html
> and got most everything to be configured correctly, localhost started,
> etc.
> But, when I run start-hbase.sh, I regularly get the error mentioned in
> the subject line.
>
> From the web, it's suggested to tweak Windows hosts to say 127.0.0.1
>    localhost  which I did. No change. If I ping 127.0.0.1, it answers
> just fine.
>
> Can anyone point to something I missed?
>
> Thanks
> Jack
>
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