Al Borchers <alborchers at steinerpoint.com> wrote:
> 
> Now I just need to take the time to really get Cygwin configured--anyone
> know how to set up /etc/hosts on Cygwin?  It does not seem to read it.
> Do I need to use some Windows mechanism to map hostnames to IP
> addresses?  I'll have to read the docs...

Try C:\Windows\hosts or C:\Windows\hosts.txt, or a similarly named file
somewhere within the C:\Windows hierarchy.  The Windows TCP stack is
descended from BSD, if I remember right, so a lot of stuff is laying
around in there somewhere (OS/2 went so far as to reproduce Unix man pages
in their help system, but I digress..)

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