Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:09:14 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@nike.efn.org> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: "Stephen F. Combs" <combssf@salem.ge.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@astral.msk.su Subject: Re: Problems with remote Netscape2.0.. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.91.951013120809.25806C-100000@nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199510130729.AAA00690@corbin.Root.COM>
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On Fri, 13 Oct 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >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. on my machine it didn't add the domain when resolving... when netscape was run it complained about setenv DISPLAY sob:0.0 but when I changed it to sob.nike.efn.org:0.0 it worked fine... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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