From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 12:03:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA09175 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:03:21 -0700 Received: from nike.efn.org (garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA09165 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:03:12 -0700 Received: (from gurney_j@localhost) by nike.efn.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA25919; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:09:15 -0700 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:09:14 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: David Greenman cc: "Stephen F. Combs" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@astral.msk.su Subject: Re: Problems with remote Netscape2.0.. In-Reply-To: <199510130729.AAA00690@corbin.Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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: :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)