netscape requires hostname in $DISPLAY

["Robert M. Riches Jr." <rm riches verizon net>]

Sorry for the partially off-topic question, but the Alpha-Linux
version of Netscape has enough of its own peculiar quirks that
perhaps it's not completely off topic.

I changed DSL ISP's today, from Internet Arena alias Netrover
to Verizon.  It seems that change caused netscape to refuse to
connect with the X server.  With a value of ":2.0" for the
DISPLAY environment variable, I get the following error
messages (indentation mine):

        Xlib: connection to ":2.0" refused by server
        Xlib: No protocol specified

        Error: Can't open display: :2.0

If I prepend the host name onto $DISPLAY, Netscape works fine.

Any suggestions other than a wrapper script to modify $DISPLAY
and then call the real Netscape?

(Yes, I'm planning to move to Mozilla, as soon as I hack the
code to make top-level windows materialize at the screen origin
of my choosing.)

Thanks.

Robert Riches
rm.riches@verizon.net