From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Failure of name resolution with ssh on windows 7 and VMware
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j27t0s$4la$2@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E46E867.4080903@stevens.edu>
* John Dzielski (Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:11:03 -0400)
> I am unable to get name resolution to work with ssh. The command ssh X
> returns the error "ssh: could not resolve hostname X: Non-recoverable
> failure in name resolution." The command nslookup X returns a valid IP
> address.
Run a Wireshark trace when ssh fails and see if you actually have an
attempt for name resolution. I'd rather suspect UAC or the firewall.
> I've created a partial workaround in my .bashrc file that creates
> variables containing the IP addresses of the names I need to resolve.
This is a weird idea. Use /etc/hosts for that.
Thorsten
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-14 8:21 UTC|newest]
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2011-08-13 21:11 John Dzielski
2011-08-14 8:21 ` Thorsten Kampe [this message]
2011-08-14 13:36 ` John Dzielski
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