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Kyle> Andy Piper writes: It's in PROBLEMS, C-s "IPv6". As pointed out, it happens in getaddrinfo(), behind the scenes, because IPv6 apparently requires a canonical name for localhost, and that you try to get IPv6 info before falling back to IPv4. You can work around it by forcing an IPv4 address for the display, either with DISPLAY or -d. There's a patch there for permanently forcing IPv4 behavior, if you want to do it in your own copy. Kyle> Me too. I think the DNS lookups at startup should go away. Yeah, I promised Karl Kleinpaste I'd make a configure option. (Martin vetoed removing it.) Mea culpa maxima, not done yet. I apologize for the delay, but I do not understand this stuff well (IPv6 or configure). A patch to configure.in to make the patch in PROBLEMS an option would be gratefully accepted. A report on a test that it works would be nice, too. Is it the curmudgeonly consensus that nuking it is not a violation of standards? If so, I'll go ahead and do it (by defaulting the configure option to "defeat IPv6 canonicalization"). This is enough of a pain in the ass for enough people that I'll delay 21.4.4 (currently scheduled for Monday) to wait on your reply. There will be a configure option in 21.4.4, the only question is who's going to write it (it will take me a while), and what is the default. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."