[lug] Does xdmcp not bind to localhost somehow?

[John Karns]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Bonnell, Doug said:

> Yes, I've tried localhost also. Didn't work. Seems to
> need a hard IP number of a name from /etc/hosts.
>
> Don't recall if I used 127.0.0.1 or not.

How about a hack of adding a dummy alias to etc/hosts which is linked to
the IP.  This would assume that the IP is static of course.  If you're
doing this on more than one machine then this would enable you to
replicate the scheme using the same name.

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