Re: Bash tries to connect to the internet

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>]

* Joel (2004-03-21 14:49 +0100)
> Hi, I just downloaded Cygwin yesterday, and Bash tries to connect to
> the internet when I open it. ZoneAlarm stopped it though.

Yes, /great/ piece of software... 

> I talked with the nice people at Perlmonks, who say they have never
> had that happen. So I came here. When I open Bash, I get a message
> from ZoneAlarm asking me if Bash can connect to the internet at
> 199.166.219.2. Vim does the same thing, including the IP address. I
> downloaded almost all of my packages from www.get-software.com
> using the setup program before switching to the University of
> Calgary mirror. Did I download hacked copies of the software?

Did you try to find out what 216.75.188.50 is? It's a DNS server
(name server) - probably the one you use for all queries.

Thorsten


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