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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:30:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Olaf =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=F6llinger?= <Olaf DOT Foellinger AT sesa DOT net>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: How to deal with DHCP and DNS(-tools)?
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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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