On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 14:27 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > On 27/09/2007, Adam Jackson <ajackson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why is this not a bug in kerberos? If the application knows that the IP > > address it wants for the name needs to be globally routable, then the > > application should be responsible for walking the list of IPs for that > > name to find the routable ones. > > Another point being missed, is that if the hostname gets changed the > moment an external IP interface is brought up, X becomes unusable > because suddenly the magic cookie isn't found (the server and > .Xauthority think it's "localhost" and the client thinks it's > "some-dynamic-ip-xx-yy-zz.imaginative-dsl-provider.com"). I think there's something more subtle going on in this case. What we do at least in startx(1) is add the cookie to ~/.Xauthority twice, once for :0 and once for foo:0, so the first one should always win. - ajax -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
