On Apr 11,  1:26pm, cjs@cynic.net (Curt Sampson) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Netscape 4.51 Solaris binary can't DNS/NIS resolve hosts unde

| On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > This has been fixed in 1.4 I believe... Try out the snapshot..
| 
| It won't even start in 1.4_ALPHA as of yesterday. It looks for
| /tmp/.X11-pipe/X0, so I symlinked .X11-pipe to .X11-unix, where
| NetBSD keeps its Unix domain socket for the X server. This seems
| to be the relevant bit:
| 
|     557 netscape CALL  open(0xefffd720,0x2,0x10fdcfa8)
|     557 netscape NAMI  "/emul/svr4/tmp/.X11-pipe/X0"
|     557 netscape NAMI  "/tmp/.X11-pipe/X0"
|     557 netscape RET   open -1 errno 122 Operation not supported
| 
| Any thoughts? This seems to me a fairly critical thing to fix before
| 1.4, since the SunOS Netscape 4.51 is pretty unreliable these days.
| For example, it just exits if I try to download (rather than display)
| any sort of file.

The bug report was about not resolving hostnames. The pipe vs. local socket
for the X0 display can never be made to work without hacks. What I meant
is that host resolution is supposed to work now.

christos