Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:29:13 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Stephen F. Combs" <combssf@salem.ge.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, ache@astral.msk.su Subject: Re: Problems with remote Netscape2.0.. Message-ID: <199510130729.AAA00690@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 95 15:44:50 EDT." <199510121944.PAA02181@combs.salem.ge.com>
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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
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