From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 20 14:33:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA20491 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:33:47 -0700 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA20484 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:33:41 -0700 Received: from exalt.x.org by expo.x.org id AA15999; Fri, 20 Oct 95 17:33:08 -0400 Received: from localhost by exalt.x.org id RAA05549; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 17:33:06 -0400 Message-Id: <199510202133.RAA05549@exalt.x.org> To: Nate Williams Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape puzzle In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:22:17 EST. <199510202122.PAA15970@rocky.sri.MT.net> Organization: X Consortium Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 17:33:05 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Here's something weird. I'm not looking for an answer or a fix. > > I'll give you one anyway. > > > >From work, if I rsh to my box and run netscape 2.0b1 with the display set > > to a machine here at work, I get an "unable to open display" error. With > > netscape 1.1 it runs for several seconds and then takes the PPP connection > > down. This has occured each and every time I've tried it. > > Why it's taking your connection out, I don't know but I've found that > the Netscape versions >= 1.1 I've run on both SunOS and FreeBSD require > me using the IP address instead of the hostname if I want to use remote > hosts. I had tried that and it didn't make any difference with the BSD 2.0b1, I still got an "unable to open display" error. :-( -- Kaleb KEITHLEY