Hosts and X0.hosts

[Ross Boulet]

> I saw that C:\cygwin\etc\Hosts was a link to the above
> Hosts file.
> Because of the above problem, I replaced the link with the
> real Hosts
> file itself.
> Now I try to create a remote connection from a cygwin/X
> xterm using the
> following procedure:
> 
> startxwin.bat
> xterm
> X :2 -query remote_hostname
> 
> The system reports and exit the command in the xterm as
> follows.
> "Fatal server error:
> Xserver: -query unknown host: remote_hostname"
> 
> b) Doesn't Cygwin/X read this latter Hosts file?

I'm open to correction here, because I don't know the cygwin
internals, but I believe cygwin is relying on the Windows IP
stack for name resolution.  Therefore, only the DNS servers
known to Windows and Windows hosts file will be checked for
names.