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To: "Stephen F. Combs" <combssf@salem.ge.com>
cc: hackers@freebsd.org, ache@astral.msk.su
Subject: Re: Problems with remote Netscape2.0.. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 95 15:44:50 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:29:13 -0700
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>I've seen the same thing, and not yet been able to figure it out.  It's not
>just with FreeBSD, I've seen it on my Sparc at work while trying to display 
>on my FBSD box at home!
...
>> I can succesfully start X-programs logging to main host such as
>> xeys, xftp, etc, but when I start netscape it says that:
>> Can't open display: <my_host_name>:0.0
>> Does anybody have experience on this thing?

   It hasn't ever worked. The only work-around is to specify the IP address of
the server - e.g.:

setenv DISPLAY 198.76.54.32:0.0

   There appears to be an incompatiblity in the resolver that causes it to
fail to translate the hostname.

-DG