X forwarding / hostname

[Markus Friedl]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 07:55:56PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> (1) Why doesn't this work when the hostname resolves to 127.0.0.1?

it's a bug in a X library, see my posting some weeks ago.

> (2) Wouldn't it be better/more secure to do all the host forwarding via
>     127.0.0.1 anyway? (i.e. DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:10.0) In this case, sshd
>     wouldn't actually care what the kernel thought the hostname was.

yes, this would be better.