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At 12:41 PM 9/2/2009, you wrote:
>On 09/02/2009 03:28 PM, jeffunit wrote:
>>I use ssh from a dos box on windows to connect to other machines, It
>>works fine right after I log into windows. After a while, it doesn't work
>>reliably.
>>
>>I type something like 'sftp example.com I get a response 'Connecting to
>>example.com...' About 1 time in 10, I get the next line which is
>>'Password:'
>>
>>This problem has been going on for at least a year, and is not specific
>>to a specific release of cygwin. The site 'example.com' is pingable, and
>>all other internet access works reliably. I would like to help debug this
>>problem in any way I can, to help resolve it.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>I sftp'd and ssh'd to example.com from Fedora 8 and it hung on me too.
>This doesn't seem like a Cygwin problem to me.

I wasn't really using example.com
example.com is reserved domain name that is to be used for examples in books
and other publications. Other domain names examples used in books sometimes
resolve to real domains, which isn't generally desired...
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

I was using my personal domain, www.weasel.com
However the problem also shows up when I use sftp or ssh to machines on
my internal lan, that I know are working.

jeff



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