Re: Using relative names

On Thu, 24 May 2012, René Berber wrote:

> You are correct, now that I test again, I see it works on Linux but not on
> Windows, so its probably the lack of resolv.conf that makes things not work
> (under Cygwin). If I add resolv.conf to Cygwin, it works!
>
> Also on Windows but with a native program that uses c-ares (built with
> MinGW), it doesn't work. So it must be something missing (BTW I have ISC
> BIND running on Windows, with a split view, everything works fine -- I can
> 'ping' with a relative name (w.r.n.), I can ssh w.r.n. before I added
> resolv.conf (and after)).

So, given all this - can you think of a suggested fix that would make things
work more like the way you would have expected them from the start?

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  / daniel.haxx.se