[xwt-users] Strange DNS failure

After puzzling a couple of people on irc I now inflict myself on the 
list ;-)

I am running xwt on linux and 0268, 0281 & 0749 do the same thing.

Using the launcher (both xwt.org and one installed locally) works fine 
if given an ip address. Same for xwt run on the command line. The 
command line also works fine with local (ie filesystem) xwars.

The problem is using a launcher or the command line with a remote xwar 
specified with a domain name (eg www.xwar.org) - even if the domain is 
localhost.

xwt fails with the following:

splash: origin is http://localhost/xwt/itunes-demo.xwar
XWT$25: couldn't resolve localhost; proceeding without permissions
Platform: attempting environment-variable DNS proxy detection
Platform: attempting org.xwt.plat.X11 proxy detection
XWT$25: IOException while loading archive:
XWT$25: org.xwt.HTTP$HTTPException: could not resolve hostname 
"localhost" and no proxy configured

(More details including strace output are at mixdown.ca/davtest)

resolv.conf uses 172.20.0.2 as the nameserver (though i tried an 
external dns server with the same result earlier). This ip is for my 
adsl modem/firewall/dns proxy box. Connection to that is via a wireless 
link. DNS is not firewalled outbound.

DNS works fine for everything else on the network - command line apps, 
browser, etc.

Anyone with any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

-- 
Stuart Clark
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http://www.Jahingo.com/