Greg Wooledge <g...@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.
