From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5011 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2018 16:45:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 120377 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jun 2018 16:45:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=wifi, WiFi, morning, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:45:26 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id YDZ2fws7WOFAwYDZ3f0OCd; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:45:06 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Automatically populate resolv.conf when new DNS is acquired To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <65242f5d-cc15-0024-47a8-0ce6be81aced@mail.com> <7b7e40f8-3f84-4080-8ffa-9ac92b973435@mail.com> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:40:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7b7e40f8-3f84-4080-8ffa-9ac92b973435@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 On 2018-06-27 03:31, john doe wrote: > Good morning  Brian, bottom posting. > By Windows Admin you mean "Windows Admin Center"? Line wrapped - Windows Admin Tools - on W10 - or search for event (log) viewer > I'm using Cygwin on a laptop (win 7 pro) and sadly, if I'm not mistaking, > "Windows Admin" is not available on non-server platform. May be Administrative Tools on W7 > If I can't find a way to determine when my DNS changes I can clearly emulate > an hourly cron job by using "task scheduler". If you're using DHCP it could potentially change when your lease expires, sometimes a couple of days, (depends on your router settings or ISP: my external IP changes every few months, internal and DNS never) or if on WiFi, when you connect to a new AP. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple