bug#21727: Tramp hangs in Windows

[Michael Albinus]

Arni Magnusson <arnima@hafro.is> writes:

Hi Arni,

> The official Windows builds of Emacs 24.4 and 24.5 hang when I run
>
>   M-x load-library tramp [RET]
>
> Earlier Emacs versions (24.3, 24.2, 24.1, 23.4) do not have this
> problem. To get Emacs out of the frozen state, I can either kill some
> cmd.exe subprocesses or kill Emacs itself.

There were bug reports 20015 and 21504, which have reported similar
problems. The problem was improper DNS setting on the local host.

Could it be, that you suffer from the same problem?

> Thanks,
>
> Arni

Best regards, Michael.