1.7.1 ssh on win7 Non-recoverable failure in name resolution ?

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 10 05:28:00 GMT 2010


On 02/10/2010 12:17 AM, William Deegan wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've just setup a win7 ultimate vm under vmware fusion.
>
> And of course, installed cygwin.
>
> When I try to ssh to my favorite host using my favorite username I get
> the following error:
> ssh: Could not resolve hostname myhost.xyz.com: Non-recoverable
> failure in name resolution
>
> Any suggestions how to resolve this?
> I saw another email where there was a similar issue with nslookup
> which suggested adding a resolv.conf (which I did and that resolve
> nslookup for the same host).

So you can now ping this machine from your Win 7 VM by name and
IP?

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