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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton