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Re: Suggestion: /etc/hosts


On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:35:15AM -0400, Zieg, Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:48:07AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
> >Paul Johnston wrote:
> >
> >>NT has an equivalent to /etc/hosts, so I think the cygwin install should
> >>create this symbolic link:
> >>
> >>/etc/hosts -> ${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
> >
> >This is a great idea, making allowances for variations in the different
> >versions of Windows, of course.
> 
> Remember that corporate NT users often don't have admin rights to their own
> boxes, and thus cannot edit /WINNT/system32/drivers/etc/hosts (this is my
> own sad state of affairs).
> 
> Thus, if such a symlink is created, please note in the documentation that
> some users will have to delete the link and manually create their own
> /etc/hosts file in order to restore original Cygwin functionality.

Huh?  The /etc/hosts file isn't used at all by Cygwin.  It uses the
same system provided files on all systems (9x/NT) as Winsock does.

If any application in the Cygwin net distro is *explicitely* accessing
/etc/{hosts,network,protocol,services} files, they have to be fixed.

Note that all applications using just the usual network function for
accessing these files are on the safe side.

Corinna

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