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From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: xauth question
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:29:52PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Gary Kline <kline@ns1.thought.org>
> > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:08:22 -0700 (PDT)
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 	On the DNS system I'm configuring (temp named `fubar'), I get
> > 	get the follow err message when I ssh across.  Can anybody 
> > 	give me some clues about this "bad display name" message?
> > 	It really is an incorrect DISPLAY name.
> > 
> > 	Could this have something to do with the 4.0.1 release of
> > 	X11?  Or could something with how ssh is set up this side?
> > 
> > 	TIA, 
> > 
> > 	gary
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > p6 11:23 <tao> [1031] ssh -l admin fubar
> > admin@fubar's password:
> > Last login: Sat Jul 21 22:51:18 2001 from sense-kline-248.
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name "fubar.thought.org:10.0" in "add" command
> > fubar%
> 
> Gary,
> 
> This indicates that xauth on the remote system tried to add an entry
> in the .Xauthority file for what it thinks is the remote system,
> fubar.thought.org. This failed, probably because the remote system has
> a hostname of fubar.thought.org, but this could not be translated to
> an IP address. I believe you can fix this either in DNS or by adding
> an entry to /etc/hosts on the localhost line.
> 

	Whoa, right on the nose!  Thanks, Kevin; there was nothing in
	fubar's /etc/hosts file.  There is now, and that err message
	from xauth is history.

	Closer to launching this new server.

	thanks muchly,

	gary


> 

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