X window woes

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Your hostname needs to be resolvable on the local machine. This can
> be through any of the methods listed in /etc/hosts.conf. You will
> get a DNS timeout delay if it is not. (An entry in /etc/hosts is
> enough on most systems.) The reason X needs to be able to resolve
> your hostname is because it is a client/server system. It will try
> to resolve your hostname as part of the startup process, and you
> will get a fairly long delay while it tries. (This is also why
> restarting X when you change your hostname is a good idea.)

Will X try to resolve $(hostname) if the DISPLAY variable is ":0" ?

My inclination, were I writing X (note the subjunctive),
would be to convert ":0" to either "localhost" or 127.0.0.1 .

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