Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:19:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: localhost woes -- help requested Message-ID: <201906181719.x5IHJ8g0014687@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <4468.1560802522@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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> In message <CA+tpaK1NKqctQqZeRg+emM8gVKWuJeveCVVx-FHsVbrkYD9Y2Q@mail.gmail.com>, > Adam <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > > >On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:54 AM Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> > >wrote: > >> ... except for the browsers, and also one other thing (nmh outbound > >> email handling). Now, both Firefox and Opera crash and burn, right > >> out of the gate, when started from the command line. In both cases > >> thet do so both with entirely cryptic failure messages. > >> > >> But here's the kicker... I futzed around with this awhile and found > >> out that if I just change the default value of the DISPLAY environment > >> variable from "localhost:0.0" to ":0.0" then both browsers *do* then > >> start up successfully from the command line. > >> > >> So, um, what the bleep did I do wrong? > >> > >> Here's the output of the command "getent hosts localhost": > >> > >> ::1 localhost > >> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.tristatelogic.com > >> > >> > >> Any hints for how I can debug this mess would be appreciated. > >> > > > >Do you have local_unbound running? It's probably caching the result. > > > >/etc/rc.d/local_unbound stop > > > >Then try your changes to /etc/hosts > > I have now rebooted the system multiple times, from a cold start, and > this has had *no* effect on the output generated by "getent hosts localhost". > > That is *still* showing me that there exists a mapping from "localhost" > to an IPv6 address, even though I commented that out in my /etc/hosts > file. > > I really would like to understand why manual edits to /etc/hosts seem > to have no effect whatosoever. And more importantly, I'd really still > like to know whey X applications cannot seem to connect to the X server > when and if DISPLAY is set to localhost:0.0 while they have no problem > doing so when DISPLAY is instead set to :0.0 What is in /etc/host.conf, /etc/resolv.conf, do you have DNS running? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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