X11UseLocalhost option and the DISPLAY variable

[Kevin Steves]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Ed Phillips wrote:
:No, I don't think so, but it doesn't solve my problem either.  The "old
:client" I'm using is a "current" version of Tivoli's Maestro (gconman in
:particular).  I don't know what X calls they use to deal with the display,
:but the application is certainly linked against the current Solaris 8 X
:libraries - just like xterm, xclock, etc.,... which work fine with DISPLAY
:= "localhost:16.0".
:
:So, if anyone can explain to me why "127.0.0.1:16.0" works and
:"localhost:16.0" does not (in an OpenSSH 3.1p1 X11-forwarding scenario),
:or how we could add an option (or why we wouldn't want to add an option)
:to have OpenSSH to use the IP address in the DISPLAY variable, I'd
:appreciate it.

We talked about dials for various display settings, but kept it simple at
first.  Is that a client I can obtain and try here?  Is it definately
using the same Xlib, etc. as the other clients that work?  Is the resolver
used the same?