Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?

[LDR <lee at veritech dot com>]

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

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