Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

[debian-user@howorth.org.uk]

Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> I'm just going to assume that it worked similarly to traditional X
> sessions (e.g. the ones on HP-UX), where it looked up the system's
> hostname, and used whatever IP address that returned for connections
> between the X client and server.

I'm confused. Traditional X sessions in my experience use a Unix socket
rather than a TCP connection when they are on the same host and don't
require the use of the hostname at all.

 $ xeyes -display :0.0

> In any case, having the system's hostname map to a nonfunctional IP
> address, or no IP address at all, causes enough problems that the
> 127.0.1.1 workaround for systems with no permanent address is a good
> and useful solution.