On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:

> I did the` xhost +soback.kornet21.net' command on my system.  Then I
> telneted to soback.kornet21.net.  And tried the following:
> 
> soback4% setenv DISPLAY fredfl2:0.0
> soback4% xload
> Error: Can't open display: fredfl2:0.0
> 
> 
> This is  a ppp connection I have through my 56k modem to
> soback.kornet21.net.
> Does anyone have any other ideas what the problem might be?
:
> I get the feeling that soback just can't find my computer to open the
> display. 

Try it with your actual ip-address, instead of the name. [It will be
the left hand side of the output of "ifconfig ppp0" on fredf12.] Since
you have a dynamic ip, your CNAME will likely be dynamic too, and
therefore not useful. If you're curious, you can see what it is with
"traceroute your-ip-address".