>Number:         8097
>Category:       xsrc
>Synopsis:       xsm core dumps on DNS failure
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    xsrc-manager (NetBSD X11 bug manager)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 27 13:20:03 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Charles M. Hannum
>Organization:
        Internetwork Hacker
>Release:        1.4
>Environment:
        i386


>Description:
	If the local host name is not resolvable, xsm core dumps.
	This is particularly troublesome since the default .xsession
	in XFree86 uses xsm.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Install 1.4.  Start up xdm.  Try to log in.

>Fix:
        [None supplied, but should be trivial.]

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: