Re: Mint X11 question...

[boisson@worldnet.net (Stephane Boisson)]

|> |(2) The following error message is repeated several times:
|> |
|> |    ip_send: not route to dst C6A86403
|> |    ip_send: not route to dst 0
|>
|> Do you have any host with the IP address 198.168.100.3 (resolves to
|> cumulus.cam.org, a Internet provider from Québec) in your setup?
|> Maybe a mistake in a configuration file?
|
|Yes, cam.org is my ISP...  So the X server goes through the
|'hosts' file, perhaps, and tries to connect to a suitable host.
|Now, I surmise that 'dst 0' is the local host?  It looks like
|there is something in my setup that prevents my machine from
|talking to itself over TCP/IP.  I've had odd error messages of
|that nature in the past (unrelated to X), but never investigated
|them because connections to outside hosts work OK. I guess now
|would be a good time to start looking...

Nope.. dst 127.0.0.1 is the localhost.. dst 0.0.0.0 is a broadcast address..


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