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From: schuler@palantir.gsfc.nasa.gov (Larry Schuler - RMS)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x
Subject: X11/NeWS server not using BIND ?
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.172531.12493@palantir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 14 Dec 89 17:25:31 GMT
Reply-To: schuler@palantir.gsfc.nasa.gov (Larry Schuler - RMS)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center  Greenbelt,  MD
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I recently received the X11/NeWS server from Sun. (OpenWindows, if you prefer.)
But I am having problems starting the combined server. It complains that it is
"Unable to resolve host: localhost". My guess is that because our Sun's use the
modified libraries that provide BIND access, the X11/NeWS server's attempts at 
obtaining an address for localhost fail, since no search of the local hostfile 
is being performed. Can anyone confirm this ? Is there any way around this short
of removing the BIND supporting libraries from the system ?
I can get the server to work in X11ONLY mode by using the standard X11 
DISPLAY environment variable, but apparently the NeWS portion of the server
requires this localhost link, and I would really like to run the server in 
dual mode.


-- 
-Larry                                    "Fair is fair, Larry. ...
                                      We're out of food, we drew straws -
schuler@palantir.gsfc.nasa.gov                     -  you lost."  - G. Larson