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Re: xdmcp error
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:16:34 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: xdmcp error
- References: <Sea2-F159bfAmTRaMgY00039fd0@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot 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.
>
> Thanks Alex,
>
> Presumably I can configure the xdmcp server not to do a reverse lookup.
Good luck! You're better off configuring your DNS server to return the
right value (or adding an entry for your Windows machine to /etc/hosts on
the machine running the xdmcp server).
Igor
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