why is bash trying to access my DNS?

[Pierre A. Humblet]

Probably because it tries to get your hostname.
At any rate you should see why if you let strace
run a little bit more.

In previous versions Cygwin was using GetComputerName.
Not it uses gethostname, loading wsock.

Pierre


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