what is <MyHostname>

[Steve Donaldson]

Its ikely to do with X  programs - ie The X window environemnt was built as
a network aware system. Programs that run in X need to know how to interact
with X and as such can connect to different server backends. You can easily
tell your gedit to open in another workstation on a LAN and edit files on
that workstation directly. - the X program needs to know where its going.

See wiki for more info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

There are people on this list who know a lot mroe than me about this
subject, and If I have gotten things a little mixed I hope they clarify :-)


Steve



On Dec 26, 2007 10:23 PM, Garry Trethewey <garrytreth at bigpond.com> wrote:

> I guess you're right, but why is it that programs like these have to
> have anything to do with a network. For instance, why does gedit
> transmit a request, to do what, that's relevant to a domain name server.
>
> Daryl Tester wrote:
> > Garry Trethewey wrote:
> >
> >> I just wonder why the log daemon and the thing that starts cups and the
> >> applications menu and terminal and gedit etc etc all want some sort of
> >> permission from a network simply because it's available. I'm sure there
> >> must be a reason.
> >
> > They're not, they're doing DNS lookups.  With the network "up", they're
> > transmitting requests successfully and then eventually timing out.  With
> > the network down, the requests fail immediately and life continues on
> > straight away.
> >
> >
>
> --
> ------------------------------------
> Garry Trethewey
> I heard it's hard to transmit a virus in semaphore,
> but moving there didn't help.
> ------------------------------------
> --
> LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/ IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
> To unsubscribe or change your options:
>  http://www.netcraft.com.au/mailman/listinfo/linuxsa
>



-- 
Regards
Stephen Donaldson - General Manager
OpenOZ Pty Ltd
------------------------------------------------
e-mail: steve at openoz.net
web:    http://www.openoz.net
phone:  0415 316 783
fax:    (08) 8351 8221
===============================================
* Open Source Integration        * Open Source Professionals
* Software Development           * Linux Solutions Support
* Web Based Applications - .NET, PHP, MySQL MSSQL
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://jessica.netcraft.com.au/pipermail/linuxsa/attachments/20071226/a20ab583/attachment-0001.html