3.1p1 breaks X11 forwarding
Bob Proulx
bob at proulx.com
Tue Mar 12 20:34:53 EST 2002
> > > X11UseLocalhost
> > I don't think that is the problem.
>
> Don't discuss with developers, try it out.
I get to eat my own words. I apologize for second guessing Kevin. I
was fixated on the changes from 2.9.9 to 3.0.2 to 3.1 and was in
disbelief at how something that obviously could not be the problem
could be the problem.
I tried the following:
sshd -p 2200 -o 'PidFile /tmp/sshd.pid' -o 'X11UseLocalhost no'
And it worked! The different X11 programs all worked fine. That
appears to resolve the problem.
> Some X11 apps are "difficult" when it comes to $DISPLAY and 127.0.0.1 -
> there was a long thread in the mailing list about this a few months ago.
I will have to search the archives some more and see what that was all
about. On the surface it makes no sense to me that a program would
know the difference between "localhost" which resolves to 127.0.0.1
which is a valid address and "hostname" which resolves to 15.6.91.87
which is also a valid address. [Something to do with the old unix:0
issue?] But if this has all been discussed before I don't want to
drag people down again with it now.
Thanks for excellent assistance. Even if I did prove myself wrong in
the process. :-)
Bob
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