If you're using kppp to dial out, there's an option somewhere in the kppp setup
which tells it to set your machine's hostname upon connection. Make sure that
this box is unchecked and you should be okay.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Stephen Clingerman wrote:
> Whenever I reboot, the splash screen dutifully reports that I am localhost.
> After logging in I am able to bring up xterms, etc. But after I dial out, I
> can no longer open any x-windows. From an xterm I had open, if I try to get
> another xterm, I get the message that the x-display 0:0 is unreachable (or
> something like that - I'm not home to tell exactly the message). If I
> shutdown the ppp session and log out, the splash screen shows that my
> hostname is now IPnn (nn differs from session to session). Loging back in
> and dialing out now allows me to open x-window stuff. I've looked in the
> .Xauthority file both before and after this occurs and I don't see anything
> uunusual. Any ideas?
>
> Steve Clingerman
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