Problem

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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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Larry

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