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Re: xdmcp error
- From: "J S" <vervoom at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:47:13 +0000
- Subject: Re: xdmcp error
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> The hostname for the ip address was right on my windows machine but
> different on the dns server checked by splhrl81 so there's a problem
with
> that DNS server. But, why is XFree trying to get my hostname when I've
> already given it my IP address?
It's not the xserver which does the translation. The xserver is sending out
the from address and the xdmcp server does a reverse lookup and then uses
this
name.
bye
ago
--
Thanks Alex,
Presumably I can configure the xdmcp server not to do a reverse lookup.
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