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..) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ If you're not the / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ solution, you're the \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) precipitate. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]