Status of Bugzilla #1153

[Carson Gaspar]

--On Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:03 AM +0100 Simon Vallet 
<svallet at genoscope.cns.fr> wrote:

> OK -- we have globally the following setup here : an external ssh
> gateway performing X11 forwarding to the internal network -- as this
> machine is multihomed, a call to gethostname() returns (correctly IMO)
> the short name of the gateway, which is the value used to set DISPLAY
> and to add xauth credentials.

No. gethostname() needs to return the (or a) FQDN of the server. Anything 
else is just broken and begging for trouble. This is sysadmin 101.

-- 
Carson