XWIN problem

[Harold L Hunt II]

Kelly,

The problem with address 0.0.0.0 is known and there is a fix; however, 
no one implemented it until now because they (no one here) were too busy 
discussing the proper way to implement the fix.  Well, I just went and 
did and and blocked the address 0.0.0.0 from being sent to the remote 
machine (which it then tries to connect back to.  The reason that 
0.0.0.0 shows up in the list of addresses for your laptop is that 
Windows returns 0.0.0.0 for any interface that is unconfigured.  A lot 
of laptops have a wireless card now; if that wireless card doesn't have 
an address (or the wireless does but the wired does not) then you have a 
50-50 chance of 0.0.0.0 being sent as the first address in the list. 
XDM servers are dumb, so they try to connect only to the first address 
in the list, then they give up if that address fails (not much point in 
sending a list then, eh?).

I will be posting an updated version of the XFree86-xserv package later 
tonight after I can verify that this fixes the problem without 
introducing any obvious problems.

Harold