X server not reponding

[John Morrison]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 10:38 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> John Morrison wrote:
> [snip]
> > Hi,
> > I have a similar problem.
> > On my remote machine $DISPLAY set as localhost:10.0
> > When i do ssh -X (or Y) user at remote_machine and try to run xclock, for
> > example, i get the following error:
> >
> > _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for localhost:6010: Name
> > or service not known Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0
> 
> That sounds more like the issue with the /etc/hosts file.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
> 
Yes it was. Got it sorted by adding localhost back as an alias
to /etc/hosts. Forgot i had changed it previously. 
Cheers,