Hi On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:03:56AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-07-28 22:20:32 +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > First of all I need to report that this problem can not be reproduced > > by me, so you need to specify exactly how you run the server and the > > client, network setup etc. > > I now see the problem. I start the server and the viewer with the > following script: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > #!/bin/sh > > display=`vncserver -alwaysshared 2>&1 | \ > sed -n "s/New 'X' desktop is \(.*\)/\\1/p"` > > echo "Display is $display" > > startx $HOME/.xinitrc -vnc -fullscreen $display > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > the viewer using $display to connect to the VNC server. > > The problem is that $display contains ay.vinc17.org:1, ay.vinc17.org > being the FQDN of the machine, and after using pump (more precisely, > "pump -i eth1"), the IP address of eth1 changes (the machine is a laptop > which moved to a different network). As ay.vinc17.org resolves (using > /etc/hosts) to the original IP address associated with eth1, connections > to ay.vinc17.org fail. > > Of course, the real problem is related to pump (it updates > /etc/resolv.conf, but not /etc/hosts -- I should probably > use a wrapper).
The reason for that is that as far as I know, no software should update the /etc/hosts file (maybe). I do not know. > Anyway I've just changed my script to remove what is before the ":" in > $display, so that the ethernet device is no longer use for the local > connection. Good to know that the problem was not in vnc. Thanks // Ola > -- > Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
