Jun
17
2005

Cygwin ping

Friday, June 17, 2005 - 06:03:21 pm
(Posted Under: Cygwin)
I was playing around with the Cygwin setup the other day. No, actually I was building the latest version of bind in cygwin, and wanted to setup a minimal Cygwin installation on a server - particularly to run bind, to bounce DNS requests to a VPN I connect to via it. (Using ipsec with a 2.6 kernel, neither end points of the VPN can talk down the VPN, blah blah blah. Oh man, it's so nice finally getting local VPN DNS for work by forwarding requests to those zones to another bind server on a machine not hosting the VPN). Hating the Cygwin installer so much (which is a whole nother blog in itself), I was looking into creating a nice base Cygwin installation that I can carry around with me on CD. God it'd be handy, I hate sitting at a machine without Cygwin. And I hate the actual installation process, setup.exe sucks.

So, I didn't actually get around to doing that (actually started working on a replacement for setup.exe), but I did notice that ping is now part of the Cygwin distribution. Way cool, I never have to deal with the crappy Windows ping again! At least not on one of my machines. [wink] No more 'ping <address>' oops ctrl+c 'ping -t <address>' when I forgot I'm in Windows. Cooooool!

Gee, talking about taking long enough to get to the point. [smile]

Post Comment



All fields are required. Email addresses will not be published, but are required for anti-spam purposas.

Switch Styles

About Style Switching.

!Weblog Index

May June 2005 Jul
SU MO TU WE TH FR SA
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30

Categories

RSS FeedRSS Feed