Re: Problem

[John Dzielski <jdzielsk at stevens dot edu>]

Larry,
    I submitted a later post where I found that the problem occurs when 
the VM networking mode is NAT.  Okay with bridged.  I've submitted a 
support request to VMware.  John.

On 8/15/11 12:56 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 8/13/2011 5:00 PM, John Dzielski wrote:
> > I have cygwin installed on a VMWare VM running Windows 7 on a Mac 
> > running
> > OSX 10.6. 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. I found the link below, and several others that reference the
> > problem, but no solution. Is there a solution to this problem?
> >
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00230.html
> >
> > I do not have this problem with machines running XP either on VMs or
> > natively. 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
> > solution doesn't work with svn working copies if the repository has a
> > dynamic address because the IP address of the repository at checkout 
> > will be
> > coded in the .svn/entries file. If the IP address of the svn server 
> > changes
> > I'm won't be able to perform svn operations.
>
> Have you talked to the VMWare folks about this?  It does seem like an
> odd issue that only affects name resolution on VMware with Win7.

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