Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:22:17 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape puzzle Message-ID: <199510202122.PAA15970@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199510202049.QAA05443@exalt.x.org> References: <199510202049.QAA05443@exalt.x.org>
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> Here's something weird. I'm not looking for an answer or a fix. I'll give you one anyway. > >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. Nate
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