> 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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