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Re: server can't always talk to client!!
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 11:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: server can't always talk to client!!
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Daniel Miller wrote:
> I've noticed that my Cygwin server can connect to my Linux client just
> fine, as long as both machines are connected to our local network.
> However, if we unplug the machines (who share a common Ethernet switch)
> from the local network, I can no longer connect to the linux box. I'm
> guessing that this has something to do with a DNS lookup on one side or the
> other; telnet sessions have a similar situation, though the telnet session
> *does* eventually time out and connect. Is this a reasonable guess?? Is
> there something I can do to bypass this DNS lookup, if that's what it is,
> so we can connect any time, even if no general network is present???
If both machines have static IPs, try adding them to the /etc/hosts files
on both Linux and Cygwin.
Igor
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