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Cygwin Bad Address


When I open a cygwin console I get the following message:

hostname: : Bad address

Furthermore when I try to ssh into a server I get this message:

gethostname: Bad address

Does anyone know what this might be about? I tried reinstalling ssh and reinstalling cygwin to no avail.


Solution

  • The only way I could fix this was by installing the 32bit version of Cygwin, it's worked perfectly on my 64bit system.