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Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?


Ah, yes, of'course.  That would definately do it.  Silly me... I didn't
even think of that.



On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:02, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> 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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