I am already doing that (i.e., dx -host localhost or specifying localhost in the dialog box for connect server in the ui). So, that's not the problem.
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Look at the environment variables. Set DXHOST to localhost. I'm
pretty sure that should solve your problem.
David
>I have a RH 7.1 system (laptop) using DHCP instead of a fixed ip
>address. I have installed the OpenDX 4.2 using the rpm provided by
>Dave Thompson on the binary download site. Efforts to start the exec
>fail because gethostbyname returned an error (ExHostToFQDN failed).
>I have localhost specified in /etc/hosts. Explicit specification of
>localhost or 127.0.0.1 in the hostname for DX also fails with this
>error. Any suggestions? There is probably an obvious solution and
>the problem seems vaguely familiar, but this is the first time I
>have used dynamic ip on Unix. I've not had this problem on dynamic
>ip on Windows. When the machine is run off the network, the exec is
>started up just fine and connects to the UI.
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