Is it securely: `hostname`:10 ?

[Nigel Metheringham]

andre.lucas at dial.pipex.com said:
> You could add '--with-ipaddr-display' to your configure options to get
> DISPLAY in the form '192.168.1.1:10'. However, if the host returns
> 127.0.0.1 as the first address from gethostbyname(hostname) then this
> might not work as expected. If, as has been said, some hosts use an
> AF_UNIX socket whenever they detect the loopback address, this still
> won't work. 

Another seriously tacky solution, would be to check the hostname/ip 
mapping of the display hostname, and if it points to 127.0.0.1, change 
it so that you use 127.0.0.2 as the display hostname.  Believe it or 
not this does work on the boxes I tries - the code that does the 
loopback "optimization" isn't bright enough to realise that in general 
the whole 127.0.0.0/8 network is looped.

	Nigel.
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