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Re: xdmcp error
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:15:27 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: xdmcp error
- References: <Sea2-F12BS48tHeKKb4000283cd@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, J S wrote:
> 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
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