From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19691 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2011 10:13:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 19675 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2011 10:13:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:13:29 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pnq0E-0004uO-JL for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:13:26 +0100 Received: from nat.scz.novell.com ([213.151.88.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:13:26 +0100 Received: from thorsten by nat.scz.novell.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:13:26 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: FW: Windows XP Headaches w/ Network Communication Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:13:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <016d01cbc976$96c2bde0$c44839a0$@com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 * Gary Furash (Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:02:25 -0700) > I just had to downgrade my PC from Windows 7 to Windows XP. I > reinstalled Cygwin (from scratch), rebased, etc. However, now, none of > my cygwin network programs work except within my work's internal > network (they used to work just fine with Windows 7). > I tried turning off windows firewall (the only firewall on, I > believe), and it didn't help. So Ping, NSlookup, ssmtp, etc., don't > work. > > The utilities work themselves, e.g., if I do ping 127.0.0.1 it works, > just can't see beyond my PC! All the errors relate to not getting to > hosts. > > I'm sure there's a simple solution to this. Thanks! Neither nslookup nor ping are Cygwin utilities (unless you explicitly install them). So whatever problem you have, it's likely a Windows problem and not a Cygwin one. Thorsten -- 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