xdmcp error

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, J S wrote:

> > > The hostname for the ip address was right on my windows machine but
> > > different on the dns server checked by splhrl81 so there's a problem
> > > with that DNS server. But, why is XFree trying to get my hostname
> > > when I've already given it my IP address?
> >
> >It's not the xserver which does the translation. The xserver is sending
> >out the from address and the xdmcp server does a reverse lookup and
> >then uses this name.
>
> Thanks Alex,
>
> Presumably I can configure the xdmcp server not to do a reverse lookup.

Good luck!  You're better off configuring your DNS server to return the
right value (or adding an entry for your Windows machine to /etc/hosts on
the machine running the xdmcp server).
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor@watson.ibm.com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route
to the bathroom is a major career booster."  -- Patrick Naughton