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From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Problems with remote Netscape2.0..
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:55:07 +0200 (SAT)
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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