Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:55:07 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: combssf@salem.ge.com, hackers@freebsd.org, ache@astral.msk.su Subject: Re: Problems with remote Netscape2.0.. Message-ID: <199510130855.KAA18268@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199510130729.AAA00690@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Oct 13, 95 00:29:13 am
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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. > I have setenv DISPLAY dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za:0.0 on angel.cids.org.za and when I start the old netscaper-1.2 or the new 2.0b it works just fine. angel is running current and dolphin is running current of about 2-3 months back. I have had no problems with this. Maybe the problem is somewhere else? John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za
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