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Bug 167690 - vino-preference: command shows localhost.localdomain
vino-preference: command shows localhost.localdomain
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: vino
Classification: Applications
Component: Preferences Dialog
2.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Vino Maintainer(s)
Vino Maintainer(s)
: 330590 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-17 10:21 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2009-02-13 13:27 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-02-17 10:21:45 UTC 
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/6657

"When setting the preferences, the command shown says:"vncviewer
localhost.localdomain:0"

With that command is impossible to connect to another computer.  In those cases
it should show your ip address."
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2005-09-10 17:04:08 UTC 
why using gethostbyname () instead of gethostname () by default?
Comment 2 Sam Morris 2006-08-08 15:24:32 UTC 
To find out the machine's FQDN I expect.

I think vino-preferences should use mdns, and display 'xerces.local', etc.
Comment 3 Daniel Holbach 2006-09-14 16:55:10 UTC 
Comment from Ubuntu bug: "What about just showing the IP number? Many people don't have the FQDN set up properly anyway."
Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2006-10-23 13:14:00 UTC 
*** Bug 330590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jonh Wendell 2007-02-12 13:09:03 UTC 
Isn't this fixed in 2.17.x?

From changelog:
2006-11-17  Jonh Wendell <jwendell@cvs.gnome.org>

	Fixes bug #376287 - Vino shows the wrong host in 2.17.2

	* vino/server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c : remove rfbSockaddrToHostname()
	function and updated rfbNewClient() so that it gets the right ip/name
	from remote machine.

Are we talking about the same problem?

Sebastien, Daniel, can you try that version?
Comment 6 Sebastien Bacher 2007-02-12 13:22:32 UTC 
The current feisty version display "machine-name:0", where "machine-name" is the hostname of the box and not known on the network. The ":0" doesn't look correct neither. Note that the label is on a button that allow to send a mail which looks weird, shouldn't it be a standard selectable label?
Comment 7 Luis Villa 2007-12-21 22:57:17 UTC 
I'm still getting this here with 2.20- localhost.localdomain:0.

The machine should be getting music.lan from dns (I'm able to access it at that address), and it seems to be broadcasting musicbox.local over avahi (though vinagre chokes when trying to open that.) Either would be better than localhost.localdomain, which is always going to fail, no?
Comment 8 Jonh Wendell 2009-02-13 13:27:34 UTC 
Hi, this is fixed in 2.25. Now the capplet shows the IP address instead of the name.