[mosh-devel] cygwin mosh wrapper problems?

[John Hawkinson]

With my macbook pro in for service, I find myself trying to use Cygwin's
mosh under WinXP (backup laptop), with some difficulty.

I get:

jhawk at black-zorkmid ~$ mosh --server=/mit/mosh_project/bin/mosh-server
cvp.mit.edu
mosh: Could not resolve hostname cvp.mit.edu: getaddrinfo: servname not
supported for ai_socktype
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
mosh: Did not find remote IP address (is SSH ProxyCommand disabled?).

jhawk at black-zorkmid ~$

Now, if I login with ssh and run mosh_server and then set the LANG and
MOSH_KEY env vars locally, it works fine. Disappointly there's not a -d
or a -v to the mosh wrapper to show me what it's really doing. And...I
don't think cygwin has an strace/truss system-call tracing equivalent?


When my...normal laptop dev environment returns I guess I could offer
some patches for improved diagnostics...

P.S.: Also, http://mosh.mit.edu/#getting seems to me to list platforms in a
very strange order. While the mosh user-base may not be typical of the
entire Internet, I would think listing the Win and Mac platforms first
would be wise, rather than listing them...dead last? (I think, maybe,
also, not all Windows users recognize that Cygwin is the choice they
want?).

--jhawk at mit.edu
  John Hawkinson