On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:
> 
> > I did the` xhost +soback.kornet21.net' command on my system.  Then I
> > telneted to soback.kornet21.net.  And tried the following:
> > 
> > soback4% setenv DISPLAY fredfl2:0.0
> > soback4% xload
> > Error: Can't open display: fredfl2:0.0
> > 
> > 
> > This is  a ppp connection I have through my 56k modem to
> > soback.kornet21.net.
> > Does anyone have any other ideas what the problem might be?
> :
> > I get the feeling that soback just can't find my computer to open the
> > display. 
> 
> Try it with your actual ip-address, instead of the name. [It will be
> the left hand side of the output of "ifconfig ppp0" on fredf12.] Since
> you have a dynamic ip, your CNAME will likely be dynamic too, and
> therefore not useful. If you're curious, you can see what it is with
> "traceroute your-ip-address".
> 

  As usual, Fred hit it right on the head. :)  I used that actual ip-address
instead of the name and it worked.

   Thanks for your replies,

   Guy
>