> On Jun 17, 10:44am, Rik Griffin wrote:
> > It can, and I have tried -display 158.152.37.242:0.0 as well. Netstat
> > indicates that a connection is being made, but nothing happens from
> > there onward. Just like the telnet problem really, it's really odd.
> 
> Well, I can think of one thing which upsets X and has caused me no end of
> headaches. It gets upset and hangs indefinitely if it can't do an in-addr.arpa
> lookup on connections and a forwards lookup on any authentication. This is a
> particular pain if you are using host based authentication (the default).
> Whilst this may not be your problem it can certainly produce the effects you
> describe. These problems would be at the server (display) end of the
> connection, not the place you are trying to launch things from.

If telnet'ed into the remote machine ca you bring a connection back to your
own machine. IE If you run something like httpd can you get a response if
you telnet back into port 80 of your Arc.

Sam

PS It gets bad when you start doing [ESC] ZZ in Zap. Aaaaaagggggggghhhhhh 
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Sam Spencer, About to be an Information Systems Engineering Graduate
from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh