Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <001f01c33deb$e6a381b0$395d79d9@cp250405a> From: "Harald Houppermans" To: References: Subject: Re: firewall going bezerk. Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 05:09:49 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Pechtchanski" To: "Harald Houppermans" Cc: Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 4:52 AM Subject: Re: firewall going bezerk. > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Harald Houppermans wrote: > > > Yo, > > > > Cygwin is constantly performing DNS lookup's > > > > My zone alarm firewall is going nuts. > > > > I think cygwin even turned my firewall off... the true vector engine. > > > > Anyway I decided to turn the firewall off completely... > > > > Cygwin is not the only app going nuts with dns... also windows xp is going > > nuts with DNS. > > > > I think it is because the way cygwin and windows works... like a quake > > game... everythin goes via network code... > > > > So cygwin is like a server giving service or something... windows xp is also > > like a server ? funny. > > > > But I don't think it s funny... I hate it... I want my internet connection > > to only access the net when it is really needed. > > > > I rather have windows xp and cygwin not be like a server etc... and just use > > dll's and other forms of inter process communication etc... > > > > Those are my wishes :P :D > > > > :) > > It's hard to say for sure, but my guess is that it's Cygwin's gethostname > function which calls winsock's implementation of same. The winsock > gethostname implementation will apparently access DNS for the name of the > current machine - go figure. FYI, gethostname is called at least when you > log in, to set the prompt and all... I think that is the case. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/