From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 23 13:09:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA22900 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 13:09:51 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA22893 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 13:09:48 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA11375; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 11:28:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510231828.LAA11375@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Netscape puzzle To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 11:28:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: kaleb@x.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510202122.PAA15970@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 20, 95 03:22:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1076 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >From work, if I rsh to my box and run netscape 2.0b1 with the display set > > to a machine here at work, I get an "unable to open display" error. With > > netscape 1.1 it runs for several seconds and then takes the PPP connection > > down. This has occured each and every time I've tried it. > > Why it's taking your connection out, I don't know but I've found that > the Netscape versions >= 1.1 I've run on both SunOS and FreeBSD require > me using the IP address instead of the hostname if I want to use remote > hosts. The Slowlaris versions doesn't for some reason, but I found it > interesting none the less. Another potential datapoint: We are all aware of the bind/sendmail static data initialization shared library changes, right? The ones that Matt Day reported and provided patches for in both Linux and BSD and to the package authors? Perhaps this is the same bug, where the resolver is incorrectly initialized. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.