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Re: How to deal with DHCP and DNS(-tools)?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Olaf Föllinger <Olaf dot Foellinger at sesa dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:30:08 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: How to deal with DHCP and DNS(-tools)?
- References: <20050103205224.GA2696@sesa.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Olaf Föllinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on my notebook with WinXP I'm using cygwin day by day. I receive the ip
> configuration by dhcp from windows. While most of the cygwins tools have
> no problem the dns tools(host, dig,...) seems to insist on a working
> /etc/resolv.conf. Does anyone have a automatic solution for updating
> this file with the current settings?
AFAICS, neither 'host' nor 'dig' are present in the Cygwin distribution.
If you compiled them yourself using the minires packages, please provide a
simple testcase of when it fails. Otherwise, you'd have to ask whomever
you got these tools from.
Igor
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