xhost + problems

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Thu, 2005-12-05 at 08:34 +0200, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
> Dear masters
> 
> I have a laptop with hoary and I cannot use xhost + for telnet on my
> local network. I get the following error
> 
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for localhost.localdomain
> 
> What is the reason for this error? How can I fix it. (ssh -X is not
> available on the network). 

humm... maybe a missing loopback address?

Is localhost.localdomain  defined in /etc/hosts?  For example, on my
machine, the first line of my /etc/hosts is:
127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain  localhost   home

(where "home" is the name of my computer)


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