Alex Finch wrote:
> I find that X11 forwarding over ssh does not work on SL 4.4. I get the 
> message
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for localhost:6011: Name 
> or service not known
> 
> I found a workaround at:
> http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164
> 
> which is to add the line:
> 
> ::1 localhost
> to /etc/hosts
> 
> apparently it is something to do with having both IPV4 an IPV6 available 
> at the same time.
> 
> The place I found the workaround is a discussion of the bug from 2002 
> claiming it is now fixed!
> 
>  cheers,
> 
>  Alex Finch

The easiest fix I know of is to edit
   /etc/ssh/ssh_config
and add the line
        ForwardX11 yes
I usually put it at the end, so that it looks like

        ForwardX11Trusted yes
        ForwardX11 yes

And it works.
Troy
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