On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Brad Salai wrote:

: Trying to set the DISPLAY enviorment variable on a sparc 1.3.3 box.
: If I say setenv DISPLAY sol:0.0 it doesn't work. (can't open display)
: If I use setenv DISPLAY 192.168.123.7:0.0 it works fine.
: in /etc/hosts, I have sol 192.168.123.7
: 
: Any ideas why this is?

Check /etc/resolv.conf.  If it has a line "lookup bind", try "lookup file
bind" to make /etc/hosts come first.

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