Re: could not determine host name?

[Peter Bystrom <peter.bystrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

perhaps you forgott to use the -n switch? the client needs to have a dns
name, if not, you will have to supply the name with the -n switch,

did that help?

//
peter



Hakan Koseoglu wrote:

> Hi, I've just built the latest rdesktop and the patch. I have the
> following error. It worked with patch 8?
>
> [hakan@mars rdesktop-1.0.0]$ ./rdesktop -4 nt.prosoft.com.tr
> rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client.
> Version 1.0.0. Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Matt Chapman.
> See http://www.rdesktop.org/ for more information.
>
> Could not determine host name.
> [hakan@mars rdesktop-1.0.0]$ nslookup nt.prosoft.com.tr
> Server:  derin.prosoft.com.tr
> Address:  195.112.132.122
>
> Name:    nt.prosoft.com.tr
> Address:  195.112.132.68
>
> [hakan@mars rdesktop-1.0.0]$ ping nt.prosoft.com.tr
> PING nt.prosoft.com.tr (195.112.132.68): 56 octets data
> 64 octets from 195.112.132.68: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=1.1 ms
>
> Well, I can't understand why this is happening. It seems I'm doing
> something trivial wrong.